Comment by palata

I don't get why you're being downvoted for that. It's a fair question.

In my opinion, the answer is that it's just a lot more complicated than it may sound. Using an AI may make them more productive, sure, but it will still be a lot of work.

It feels like they just haven't reached critical mass. Briar is a great idea, but if not enough people are willing to use it (and donate to it), then it cannot succeed, right? And the fact that they considered rewriting it from scratch means that it's not only a question of user base: there are fundamental problems that aren't easily solved.

P2P is just hard, as proven by the fact that there is almost no example of successful P2P system in the wild.