Lots of keybase early users here. I started really using it relatively recently, and mostly like it, regardless of "losing its way".
What I use are is the chat, git and filesystem. Verifying other people's identities - not so much.
The only problems are related to the GUI having hiccups, opening images posted to the chat, say. Git and filesystem are relatively slow, but can live with that.
I feel like if they did some decoupling and got rid of the persistent running connection / filesystem stuff for features that did not need it as a mandatory thing that early users wouldn't mind as much. For all I know it actually does work that way too.
What I use are is the chat, git and filesystem. Verifying other people's identities - not so much.
The only problems are related to the GUI having hiccups, opening images posted to the chat, say. Git and filesystem are relatively slow, but can live with that.