There may possibly be more n9 developers watching and listening...
But I really doubt there are more n9 developers than there were for the n8x0...
It is just the bulk of the n8x0 developers have left and are not watching and listening at this point in time.

Take for example ...
All the recorded various alternate os's, de's and wm's done for the n900, n950 and n9 ...and add them all up ...
and they don't even come close to the number of os's, de's, and wm's done for the n8x0 ...

With the massive volume of years of easily accessible data ...
and with some email's sent out to those departed n8x0 devels ...
I think it would be done far faster than the n900, n950, and n9..

But this is purely my perspective...

As far as the shipping and import costs go for the donor n8x0's...
I was considering that possibility of it being cheaper to source them locally....
Let me know