As you know @myceliumcoordinator - it isn’t trivial to judge the velocity of a project. What tools would you use to compare the speed of development in Gitcoin vs. Giveth for example?
I see in Gitcoin’s Grants Protocol and Passport well-thought-through projects that have spent a lot of time and effort addressing the needs of development partners with the help of extensive product management and design resources. Nonetheless, it is hard to know that development is moving in the right direction before the code is shipped and being used.
In short - I think you touch on something crucial which is how to metric the pace of development - as well as whether it is focused on the right features and capabilities.
For community health of a contributor community, the CNCF offers a powerful though not very opinionated or simple to use for comparative analysis Grafana-based environment called Devstats: https://devstats.cncf.io/
It isn’t perfect however perhaps if there isn’t already such an initiative it could be useful to have a similar set of tools & metrics (starting w/ a fork) for web3 open-source projects. It could also help us all to rally behind signs of product development momentum.