It's time to revise your old biases. You're talking about tools for the old OS. The BB10 development tools are much nicer, and people are finding them easy to work with[0]. Since the OS is built on QNX, the simulator is now just a VMware image that boots into QNX directly. Oh, and you don't need access to a signing server to try out your own code. (And I think you sign files yourself when they go out to other people.)
Since BB10 isn't even done yet, it hardly seems fair to call these ideas "old biases". It might be time to revise those current biases once the thing ships.
Sure, but the point I was trying to make was that the (maybe historically) cruddy toolset will likely have contributed to the decline of the platform, and nobody seems to mention that.
If they've improved the dev environment for BB10 then at least they're doing what they can in that regard. Hopefully it's not too late.
[0] http://kalogirou.net/2012/08/31/porting-your-ios-game-to-bla...