This sounds similar to what we are going through at work. I might get some crazy idea, like say, “What if we built up a chain from Cosmos SDK or Polkadot Substrate?” And then the devs might come back to me and say, “We think that’s kinda neat, but how do we deal with all the bugs we find?”
Most of the time it is not bugs they are talking about but just a lack of documentation that explains just how powerful these tools are and what exactly you can and should be doing with them. I recently went to a Polkadot hackmeet where they were explained how to use Substrate to spin up your own basic chain in 30 minutes. They told me that they’d had this capability for months! In fact, they built the Polkadot chain itself using Substrate. But it took them almost a year to get the documentation just right so that it could be useful to non-Parity folk. And that’s just for the English version of the docs. Now they gotta build those resources in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, etc.
These are no doubt daunting tasks, but they have to be done in order to maximize the utility out of these complex software tools that are being built.
That is a really great example of the broader issue in cryptocurrency. There are a lack of simple to understand docs for just about everything you can imagine. Ranging from how to store your private keys to how to build a blockchain from the ground up. The industry is still new, but I often wonder if anyone is actually spending a significant amount of time and resources on building out authoritative docs for the layperson. I hope to do my part, at least for the Steem blockchain.