I posted What works, if anything? because there’s nothing that makes it easy to start using cMixx as a service for anyone who wants to build.
Gateway for Polkadot, etc. - it’s workable, but if your wallet fails once every 20 sends, you have to add code to handle retries, deal with user’s support requests, etc. I don’t think any wallet wants to deal with these issues. xx network would have to work much better (and not be a joke in terms of validators) for any business (wallet vendor) to see value in it. I assume you remember Proxxy, and I also assume you never used it yourself, which tells you everything you need to know about the odds of that becoming a raging success.
Text chat (messenger) is a better use case, as retries are less annoying (but still annoying, which should discourage most developers, once they see how frequently they have to retry).
I agree the best way is to make it possible to easily use the network rather than try to create own clients.
But how do you even start selling any privacy value proposition when it takes 10 seconds to go to Wallet and see that your messages may be mixed by one guy? What’s the point?
The Foundation, Council and “community” don’t even think this is a problem.
So we have no good builder tools, network gateways are unreliable and the validators are a joke. But instead of fixing that, they’re fixing the Web site…