I agree. The way forward is to push and grow, not abandon and restart.

Much of the work can absolutely be ported over. If you remember Mozilla Suite, it became this bloated application that combined a browser, email client, and other junk. Some devs forked it and started the Firefox project as an experiment to create a leaner, faster, standalone browser alternative. That worked well enough. Many such cases. It can be the way. What we have now is not what people want. It just isn't. Not only normies but most people. Even Ross Ulbricht left to go back to posting couple pics on Instagram. I'm not saying there isn't some Deux ex machina waiting in the wings, but the numbers do not look good no matter how you frame them.