We might be reading different aspects of this.
But Sherlocking one of your few ecosystem members with business traction — at a community event where their logo is right behind you as a sponsor! — is at the very least hamfisted.
You don’t need to be maximally evil to FUD your own.
atprOtO is a giant pile of economics problems people keep misconstruing as engineering or product problems. Raise money and hire a COO, or better yet, hire a fractional COO now and pay them in whatever combination of equity and cash you can manage so they can help you raise them a FTE salary.
As I leave Vancouver, I am comforted to know that I do so under the vigilant watchful gaze of the goose