I don't think having 8 places to sign up is a development issue. It's a political issue. None of these groups want to work together to create a single unified, free, easy sign-up. They all want to be the one. So we get this mess, where we have multiple places to sign up, all of them confusing in some way, and no clear path for new people. End result is I imagine a lot of new people look at it, don't know which one to pick, and instantly decide it's not worth the effort and go somewhere else.