Very true. While the decentralized, typically "amateur" nature of the btc marketplace will yield some worthless offerings, it's also open to ANYONE from anywhere in the world. An impoverished Sri Lankan 17 yr old with $200 netbook could write the next killer app for Bitcoin. And the marketplace's hyper competitive nature, with almost no barriers to entry, will tend to produce brilliant products and services but these may be months away.

I also think the core dev team (Gavin et al) is the minority of the development. They're making a better core client, but such gains are marginal compared to the peripheral businesses being developed elsewhere.