Hey @pserwylo, great to hear from you, and I especially appreciate your message here with the background. And I'd like to highlight your point that there is much less contributor time than people imagine. If anything, the F-Droid client UX design process back in 2016 has proven to be an immensely efficient exercise it putting together a UX that still works decently. Plus we managed to predict that bottom nav would rise in popularity and those sliding sidebars, which were recommended back in 2016, would fade.

You're of course welcome to contribute again! The hard part is that app stores are large and complicated apps, when done fully, so that makes it hard to contribute to. We do mark issues with "first-timer" https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/?label_name%... and "help-wanted" https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/?label_name%... if anyone is looking for a place to jump in. I think we can also see this in all the various other clients like G-Droid, M-Droid, Foxy, Droid-ify, NeoStore, etc. Many rapidly stop being maintained, and others leave out key functionality like localization and automatic mirror selection because it is a lot of work to implement. The new libraries should make it a lot easier for forks to implement these features.