Oh interesting. And thanks for taking the time to read my article. It’s probably what you say, a potentially very different user base. I don’t give a lot for “millions of users” (I’d hope that DTP had so many, would be great for them). For the users vs. developers, interestingly, the first other Obsidian user I accidentally met in person was the then curator of the Royal Art collection. He was doing all his research on Obsidian and was probably the most technology distant person that was using a computer I had ever seen in my life. And that was back in 2021, after Obsidian was basically only out for a year or so.
So if someone dusting off old posh furniture in Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle gets to use Obsidian, it can’t be too developer centric. Of course I do push it, but that’s the whole point: I’m actually able to change just about everything of it, whilst in DTP I literally can’t even have my trash folders not using a ridiculous strikeout font (I keep coming back to this, as I got pushback even for asking to have that configurable). I can do some cool automations with DTP, like writing some simple apple scripts to import mails etc., but then again that’s really limited.
I don’t care about price really. And Obsidian’s sharing option I also don’t care about; theres’ e.g. git plugins available, and before they were, I just wrote one myself. So you don’t actually need to “buy” anything from them; as you can imagine, their sharing option via their cloud is clearly a no-go for enterprise users.
But then again, you have the option of doing things otherwise.