Perhaps we should stop whining and start fixing them. And then if the developers refuse to accept things people have been wanting for well over a decade then we can fork it and simply abandon them like any other archaic unusable thing of the past. We've all asked very politely long enough.
This is open source, we don't have to put up with this, that's the whole idea behind it. Closed source solutions from 23 years ago shouldn't still be running circles around the current stuff. We should all be embarrassed.