In 18min , Mario Zechner , the creator of pi will echo more or less your exact concerns as to why he developed it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjfbvDXpFls

Enjoy !

Thanks, this is a high-signal talk!

Good talk! I'm using Claude to clean up Pi a little bit before I try it (porting to PNPM is part of my standard startup checklist); I'm very excited to see how it goes!