The problem here is, imo, that the curation is in a lot of cases based on the devs personal usage of lemmy. Meaning if Nutomic or Dessalines don’t think they need a feature you’re already facing an uphill battle to just get them to understand that even if they don’t want it, other people do. Best example I can think of is how lengthy the debate about post tags was until they relented and switched from “won’t implement” to “if somebody else does the work” (I’m still skeptical they won’t block any actual work there with nitpicks about implementation details) see this GitHub Issue for what I mean. It really takes away a great amount of motivation if you have to convince the devs about what you plan to implement. Instead of “Gauge Community need for feature” -> “Write Proposal” -> “Implement” it now is “Gauge Community need for feature” -> “Argue with GitHub Mods for a few months” -> “Write Proposal” -> “Implement”