@Von_Hamsterwheel The problem with "smaller community with high-quality people" is that that's /precisely/ an anti-scalable option. If this grows (and if it starts as that, it almost certainly will), it'll be a /larger/ community with ... less high-quality people.
That's "The Normal Invasion" and "Minimum Viable User" problem in a nutshell (both recent tootstorms).
Question is: how do you preserve intelligence whilst growing scale? Or can you even?