Hi.
I wouldn't say NVDA's development has taken a dramatic hit, I just believe that it has slowed down a noticeable amount, with features taking a back seat to bug fixes. Case in point, I commented on an 11-year old feature request of NVDA moving to the previous and next clickable element on the page, and persons have been asking for it on e-mail lists. It is more useful now than it was 11 years ago, even 5 years ago. Still, no progress has been made, despite this feature request being so small. I'm not complaining, because I don't have the first clue about coding it, but I just wonder if things would've been different if Jamie was around. I've posted about 20 tickets or so, not a lot, but Jamie was the one that really commented and pushed fixing the bugs along a lot faster. If we, in the community, can find someone like that, that would be really great. Instead, most comments these days ask for things that are sometimes not needed to reproduce an issue. I commented on one the other day, where the opening comment stated that he couldn't find something in the Input gestures dialog. The other person asked for steps to reproduce and a whole lot of other info, without checking first. Of course, it was not there. Anyway, we need greater community involvement, with persons who will give their all to the project.