Yes, I think I'm on the outside because I'm not involved in the language development. (And I don't plan to, I have more than enough projects going.) I described the image I got by following the mailing lists the last years.

So my perspective isn't flawed due to too few information IMO. The only thing I didn't do was to become even more tightly involved with the whole project and write code. (Even though I once submitted a test to the PUGS SVN).