I'm mentioning Cincom (no affiliation) Visual Works over and over again. If you read it carefully, you'd see that I'm not entirely OK with the restrictive personal license, the lack of any cryptography-related stuff (incl. HTTPS), and the closed source VM. I'd prefer a Smalltalk without these restrictions. I still use VW and not Pharo - because the gap in quality of the software is so incredibly wide that it dwarfs other considerations. VW looks like it's made by professionals (well paid at that). Pharo looks anything but, yet (politely, out of concern and genuine interest) pointing it out gets you hate and verbal violence from the community.
I want an open source Smalltalk implementation. I want more people to like Smalltalk. I want more people to use Smalltalk. Pharo could be helpful with these, but it's not. Instead of a gateway into Smalltalk ecosystem, Pharo is an impenetrable wall to new users. And the community doesn't care. There are some people that do care. See Glamorous Toolkit. See Cuis.
I wrote a few small pet projects in Pharo, back in 2012. They kept getting broken release after release. And at some point, the default download with official releases stopped working altogether. And never worked again. There's a ticket from 2021 (created years after it stopped working for me) describing the problem: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues/9729 This is a regression brought about due to another rewrite of something. Still not fixed. You know, I could fix myself and contribute the fix - I have the skills and could potentially find the time. But Pharo and its community burned so many bridges for me that this is not going to happen.
Call me petty all you want, but the kinds of people running Pharo are just not worth being helped.