Solana and Ethereum have really good tooling and are therefore attracting many developers to their ecosystsem. While we at Polkadot have the best tech, we really need to up our game when it comes to tooling!
I agree, we shouldn’t just bank on “better tech stack”. Building and maintaining good tooling around contracts do require substantial development efforts. Glad to not only this being tackled but also by someone very experienced! I think it will complement the new contract runtime and compiler nicely.