Whenever you make a big project that threatens the major stuff, people come in and mess it up, put others in powerful roles, send misleading communications, adjust websites and dialogues to change public impact, spend lots of money ... It's great to change that, but it's also just what happens.

Tor's ability to leave functionality gaps hinges on its users being unable to take advantage of them easily themselves.

But if you can go into a community and creatively lobby more effectively than the people already do so, things change. Revealing things repeatedly can also help.

Thinking a little on an app that users could use that reveals tcp traffic at a distance. Maybe by measuring changes in torrent and other transfer speeds? It's a small statistic, but once something's significant it's there to display.