Don’t you have a beta?
I don’t know. Confounding does not even begin to describe how this forum community works.
Interestingly, I noticed a more recent trend where new WIPs these days are fairly likely to get a substantial amount of attention. On the other hand, WIP threads which have been bumped with an update after being ‘inactive’ for some months really seem to struggle for attention, even if they received a lot of attention initially. Don’t want to name names though…