Hi Ben,
+1 for good ideas.
I had same feelings like you, while ago. I have subscribed in 2012 and since then lot of good changes came into awareim.
Yes, the community is small compared to other systems, but we have to spread the news to the world. I came from other dev. languages, open ones like php, but with aware I have a fully functional app in minutes.
I'm curious like you what is the roadmap of this system, because is a good one. I hope Vladimir will tell this in Vegas and after that on aware's blog/website. We are all courious.
Nice day,