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The coin is just too small to reliably support those sorts of products and independent efforts (not meant as any disrespect for jwinterm and his lightWallet GUI which is still maintained and used). While it isn't the idea long-term strategy, for now we need to focus efforts on getting one well-maintained GUI.
None taken. I'd hardly even call it maintained to be fair. Based on your last sentence I infer that you believe the official Monero core GUI is still quite a ways off, unless you're saying that Monero core will be that one well-maintained GUI, and efforts should be focused there.
I did not mean to suggest anything about the expected timeframe for the core GUI. I did mean that it would be the one well-maintained GUI, since efforts would be focused on it in a manner that doesn't seem to happen for independent GUIs.