Waves are a good foundation built in many, they have their community big and are working on projects collaborating with other projects to build DEFI decentralized finance. During the years waves, there hasn't been any criticism from the developer community.
Maybe in the next year, the trend of developers will move to the Waves blockchain.
I don't think so because until now, when Waves tried to follow DeFi trend, tokens that were made using waves blockchain none of them were popular, even their dex exchange volume is like no growth.
You are talking about the community element, please pay attention to technology, a clean project without exaggeration. You may not have observed the projects on Waves platform yet but I find they are doing very well.
Here is an example:
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/waves-enterprise/This project is under construction in Russia and has many major partners in this country. They choose Waves, not Ethereum.
Waves also have a exchange that combines both decentralization and centralization.
https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/waves-exchange/