As they say, "no guts no glory". We can talk about this for ages, but I gave it a shot and sent a message to a dev, proposing him to do a one-time one-hour Q&A on these boards.
Expecting nothing, but hoping for a positive reaction, I'll keep you posted.
Fingers crossed!
It is difficult for theymos to accept your invitation and be online on the forum to answers all the questions. Perhaps we can compile all the questions and ask him to reply once he get the time. A similar initiative was also started here
[Interviews] with Bitcointalk members but that's also offline interview.