To your points regarding the Roam Founder, it’s the same reason I dropped Roam several months ago and was so thrilled to learn about Obsidian just a few weeks ago!
Also, over the past 2-3 days, more stuff is surfacing about the Roam Founder and the company culture… It’s not good and it confirms the “creepy” feelings myself and others have had the past 6-7 months:
This on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RoamResearch/comments/hhz1t3/saw_this_on_twitter_thought_on_this/
Which leads to this Twitter thread from developers who interviewed for positions at RoamResearch: https://twitter.com/jasonyuandesign/status/1277352830571999232
And this developer who had a similar experience: https://twitter.com/glitchyowl/status/1277374474275311616?s=12
And finally this thread about the much larger issue of the “cult-like group that calls itself ‘Rationalists.’” https://twitter.com/melissamcewen/status/1277465062010163200?s=12