what I hear is that people want an organized road map and detailed white paper because us oldtimers have seen too many be the 'big new shiny' and fizzle out for any number of reasons. Nobody knows how things will go but right now they seem to be shifting a bit to people using the front end, staking and encouraging discourse , healthy debate but there are a lot of us who want a road map and some more information on how the dev ends are going or that the communities wants/needs are integrated into what work is being done.
Peace and Pob,
Axey :)