There are certainly very hypish proponents of Monero who run around talking about how great it is at every opportunity. I understand how they might put you off, and I find them tedious and stupid as well. I'm not one of them.
Smooth I've been aided by having discussions with you so I'm glad you haven't done what he suggested. But to make it clear, I think he is saying he wish you had shut up and been coding.
That's nice, but he doesn't get to dictate our priorities any more than I get to dictate his opinion of us.
In case it isn't clear the reason I'm not spending all my time coding is one of teamwork. Monero is not a lone developer project where one person has to choose between coding and communicating with the community. We have people who code full time, people who code part time, people who work on research and design issues (both full and part time), and people who code not at all but do other things like organization, web design, etc. (and probably a few other categories I'm forgetting). I'm in the second and third categories in case anyone cares, but I'm not sure why that even matters.
Like it or don't like it, I don't particularly care. But if you either based on made up justifications without any real information or bad information (as Liquid71 did, and as some proponents have done) I'm going to call that out, as I have done with both.
I understand your feeling. I am vested too in the things I contribute to.
I also think talking here can't help XMR get adopted at all.
I've enjoyed very much the discussions with you. Has clarified many things.
As the pedal hits the metal, only adoption will matter. And talking to cryponerds is only useful for making design decisions, not for marketing results.
Edit: perhaps it is because I don't think the target market is here on BTT.