Aside from the fact that a lot of people flow into new projects purely to "profit from the excitement of a new thing," I'm guessing some people have been put off by recent POB "drama" in the sense that POB set out to try to solve some of the issues we have seen on St€€em and Hive... and then it is turning out that we seem to be looking at similar issues... once again.
Perhaps POB will be a good long-term spec... time will tell.
Sure turned me off