The advertising/reviews are certainly pointed at the Network Administrator/IT Director purchasers rather than home labs in most cases. The activity on the forum seems to a great extent to be about re-purposing 2nd and 3rd gen corporate hardware for home labs, soho, educational and odd edge cases with the occasional reach to current gen.
It would be interesting to know how much silent traffic there is on this site and who they are. It is certainly the best/only forum like it that I have found. A couple of the enthusiast sites have a sub-forum/thread that crosses over into corporate gear but most simply do not have a use case for core/threads, bandwidth/latency, SMP, or distributed networking. Games are single threaded and mostly like Hz. The SOHO video production guys have a some overlap but focus on their unique use cases.
Servers/Networks are generally tools or components of a solution(s) rather than having a purpose all of themselves so it is quite possible that many of the visitors to this site are transient.... Build out network/server, solve issue, check alternatives ... Move up/down the stack.
rambling... In real life for quite a few years I worked in a very large IT organization that provided me with the infrastructure solutions I required to implement applications on top of. In my basement I am infrastructure guy, network guy, dba, developer, tester, solution architect, pm and user.
At this point in time, this forum, is a wonderful asset to me and more information on integrating 2nd gen hardware and open source, hypervisors, vms, development, production environments would make me more "productive" but then I will jump to configuring development environments databases, misc business functions and other application related software that is outside of the scope of this set of forums.
Am I your customer? Yes, no, maybe... Watering down this site isn't likely to be a good thing. i.e... there are enough gaming forums on the planet. Does integration fall within the scope of ServetheHome... What's your "mission statement", mission, vision, goals, objectives yadda yadda... If you have your business case penciled out it then the answers to most of these question should be mostly apparent.
Everything to everyone isn't usually a good business plan even if most of us tend to just go wherever the wind pushes us.
OR you should just do the stuff that interests me and to heck with everyone else...