it is definitely missing the attention it deserves. It's true, as a foss project, it is hard to reach what commercial competitors are up to, in terms of functionalities, performance, but also marketing and users.

if no one use it, it will probably get unmaintained and buried. One need to have patience and be open to unlearn and re-learn a bit how things could be done differently. Especially if coming from commercial tools. The same happens when migrating from Windows to Linux for example. It's difficult to change what we are use too, but once done, life becomes much easier, especially when we see those error popups as a bad memories.

Happy to help if you need setting it up for your next project, as Penpot can be self-hosted too.