Good perspective but I would like to hear the response from the developers before concluding too much.
This is not meant as a goad to you, but more just as more info for everyone, my understanding is it is an open source community of like minded people type project (as opposed to a bigco) and actively solicits contributions (by which I mean code and data) so anyone seeing room for improvement is welcome to step in from what I can tell.
I did find your comment helpful and informative; just adding another angle here.