The reason historically for multiple concurrent implementations is because we're building a protocol, and multiple implementations dogfoods that - plus the different implementations service different segments. In practice, Hydrogen and Dendrite are currently deprioritised in favour of focusing on polishing Element X and Synapse. And Element Mobile is in security-maintenance mode only in favour of Element X.

Meanwhile, we massively fixed Element Mobile's UI a year ago: https://element.io/blog/an-unrecognisable-improvement-elemen... - and Element X is essentially the same UI... but on a different engine. So I'd argue that we were very aware that Element's UI was crap, which is why we fixed it. Rewriting the Element mobile apps as Element X is unquestionably the right thing to do in terms of sharing the same rust codebase between the two platforms and letting the app layer focus on UI.

Agreed that our progress has been slow, and our focus been has very broad at points. But we got there in the end, and certainly have learned from the journey (and built Matrix to be a much broader and successful heterogenous ecosystem as a result).

I'm sure your projects are all much more successful though - I'm jealous! :D