Well, and with respect to the protocol implementation, SkippingStones is mostly merely a Qt/QML port of the libpebble Python implementation.

You live, ehm code, you learn.

Not to forget, for this small niche (free mobile OS independent from Android and ios), people working in their spare time are an important factor.

Edit: And to add, I think that poking fun is, well, sometimes fun, but on the other hand I think that a more welcoming tune sometimes would be also, lets say, helpful.