Then it becomes, as is so often the case, a question of proper marketing, and managing expectations. You seem to have acquired a group of users/interested onlookers expecting something they're not getting. Or at least a few loud ones:-)

I'm actually fascinated by these 'social science' (i.e. not really a science) aspects of programming languages. If you think about it, programming languages are all about people, how they interact with computers, and how they interact with one another to solve complex problems.