I'm just telling you about my experience. Obviously Nyxt is very different from more conventional browsers. I'm an Emacs and StumpWM user, and I'd love to have the same kind of power in browser environment. But without easily accessible docs it's just a little bit too high barrier for me.
> it would drift from different versions people were using
Good point. Maybe as a first step just copy that paragraph from readme file to a more prominent place on site? It's very unusual for a project site to have no manual.
Then make the latest version of docs available online. It should be clear 1) what version it talks about, 2) how to check version of user's installation, and 3) how to open the embedded help.
Then if really needed add docs for previous versions, like some projects do. For instance https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/index.html.
I suppose at least some basic concepts have been stable enough to not change anytime soon?
Or does Nyxt still change substantially from the UX point of view?