you said it yourself.
"added such an insane feature list in the last few years "
those people are there more then few years. so this improvement has nothing to do with these people ( except managerial role ).
those people are there more then few years. so this improvement has nothing to do with these people ( except managerial role ).
Emacs maintainers do an insane amount of work! They know most of the code, write new code, review code submissions, support a bunch of mailing lists and answer numerous stupid questions.