Funny you mention that. I spend half of every year cycling the world, editing OSM while I do so. I am well aware I am about the only person doing so for a given region of countryside, and it could be years before another mapper comes along after me. I can look back at places I mapped before Covid and see almost no additions, even though the given routes draw a lot of cyclists or overlanders.

Most of my peers in the bicycle-travel community are uninterested in mapping, or even totally unaware of where maps come from. Apps like Komoot became standard tools for cyclists, but only a minority ever learned that its data derives from OSM and anyone can edit it.