@dansup In general having a polished mobile app does help user growth, I don't think PeerTube has been "held back" by the lack of just a good app.
As for "surges" as experienced in Mastodon and Pixelfed, you know perfectly well it's not just about the quality of these platforms/products.
Personally I think PeerTube is fine where it is right now, but if you want to define it's success by metrics, then PeerTube's biggests problems are:
- YouTube
- Storage costs
- Content quality