I have been Delphi developer for more that 15 yrs. I had 2 shareware apps, one of which is still selling (very well). But now I work in Objective C. Xcode is much better IDE (Delphi is 32 bit, and crashes often with big projects).
I will probably continue to do Delphi, on the side, but iOS and OSX are my main domains of interest.
Delphi devs are old, no new fresh blood, no jobs available, no new books are being published.
Online material is mainly marketing, no useful blog posts, new frameworks, package managers..
Delphi is great for people that have been using it for ages, but with the current pricing, and no 'community' edition, it will not attract new developers.
I agree with most of your sentiments, but no new books and no new frameworks isn't completely true. For example, I just started reading Coding in Delphi (https://leanpub.com/codingindelphi) which describes a few current efforts. Still I'm hesitant to make use of those, because they would further lock me in with Embarcadero; sticking to what's in Delphi 2010 itself at least allows for a relatively smooth transition to Lazarus at some point. I haven't given up on the principles of Delphi yet, but I have on Embarcadero.
