Given how aggressively they've pivoted their communications away from the esotericism, I get the impression that they're pretty cognizant of this. They seemingly have their fundamental platform somewhat pinned down, given their release of OS1. I've got my fingers crossed that as they increase accessibility on the frontend, they'll also be working to make the dev experience friendlier to those of us who didn't buy into the cultishness of Urbit early on.

Eager to see what people build on top of it. I've still got my old ships (or planets) somewhere.

Canvas is pretty cool: https://github.com/yosoyubik/canvas

There's a bittorrent tracker you can read about on the mailing list too which is pretty neat.

There are a couple of folks working on supporting ship-to-ship bitcoin payments, which is very nearly to a working demo.

If you haven't been on in a while, Landscape (the web client that ships with Urbit) itself is also really awesome.