Will it interest you to understand that there are some bitcoin enthusiasts and developers who are not in this forum but they are seriously involved in Bitcoin activities.
You are right about this. There are a lot of developers out there but they don't interact on bitcoin forums, but it's possible they interact in other places or other chat rooms.
Being a member of this forum does not automatically make us de first class citizens of Bitcoin but that does not defile or deny the fact that this is very forum is full of information of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency and this information are almost second to none because it is an open forum. Even when an information is wrong somebody, someone will also debunk it publicly for the consumption of all.
Generally speaking new commerce of these days do not find interest in cryptocurrency and bitcoin. Most have interest in participating in signature campaign.
Bitcointalk allows users to interact with each other on a variety of topics, but of course not all users have the same goal of engaging. Many people expect money, it's not wrong if they are able to make a positive contribution to the forum and or other users. Ideally the desire to make money and contributions should be fairly balanced, it requires that they be knowledgeable users.