This isn't to blame OCDB for anything. And in terms of your projects I was delighted to hear that main-line OCD is coming back. We've missed you.
Ocdb was unreleased for a long time due to it being non-profit and development on it being a bit slow, this is not to blame the people maintaining it
I certainly don't mean to blame the people maintaining it, especially since the long beta period kept you as a relic of really useful vote-sellers well beyond the entire rest of the market. It's unfortunate that has changed now, but you have to be responsive to market realities just like anybody else. The idea of a user-restricted service that gives more value to positive community members is a strong one, but Minnowbooster and Qustodian have shown it doesn't really work for the delegators. Maybe you can market it better than they have, and make it work. I hope so. But I think the market is working against you.
Well we're not going to be that strict on the restrictions and unlike one of the others you mentioned @ocdb will forever remain non-profit. We can't make delegators delegate to ocdb if they get more profit from a for-profit bid bot, that's why we had to go down on the ROI but with additional curation on good posts that happened to use @ocdb we want to strive for increased quality and making it worth everyone's time and money.