I've noticed in the software engineering field that (very occasionally) one unusually skilled engineer is worth literally 10 average ones.  Alas, I was never one of the unusual ones and I've only worked with a handful of them.

I suspect the people who really understand the ecosystem on a wholistic level will have a higher percentage of these unusual types, and in distributed-crypto-currency-land an unusual individual may have an even greater value ratio.  Thus, I don't really care all that much about the numbers of foot soldiers in a boots-on-the-ground numeric.

Indeed, the idiots in the Bitcoin ecosystem today are numerous and they are much more of a liability than they are an asset.  Their job is done.  Disposing of them (as native Bitcoin core users) is yet another reason to look forward to a fork war.