巧妇难为无米之炊 ...'

('even the most resourceful householder is hard pressed to assemble a meal without ingredients - or perhaps, 'where there's a will there's not always a way')

Something about their business model doesn't quite seem to be working ... too big a product range ? too strong an emotional attachment to small scale ? recruitment simply dampened by Seattle rain ? or by some phobia of tele-workers ?

Who knows ? In any case, some impression of a bottle-neck in the spreadsheets or in recruitment ...

Whatever it is, their pious invocations of the ballot box (in the face of long-neglected bugs) would not be so frustrating if their products didn't also have some real elements of technical excellence, and I wish them all well ...