Correct. Elm's publicity issues stem from how closed off the leadership is. There's Evan (creator) and a handful of trusted others that have a huge amount of sway over how the language and, arguably more importantly, the core libraries develop. They also get special access to write libraries that rely on native JS code (something you can't do as of 0.19 even locally in your own projects).

Elm is a great language and I've written extensively[1] about how nice it is to use in production. But if you want to get involved in the community, it feels like there's not much to get involved in. The fact that even on the Elm Discourse[2], posts auto-lock after 10 days means that the forum is now pretty dead compared to what it used to be in 2018-2019.

[1] https://charukiewi.cz/posts/elm/

[2] https://discourse.elm-lang.org/