The sad thing is, what obviously takes huge amounts of time, skill and imagination often translates to yet another so so feature most people didn't know they wanted, or perhaps didn't even notice now they've got it.

But my impression is, the things they are crying out for get hardly/if any attention because they are not interesting to do, there's not enough time left over after screwing round with all the other more "interesting" stuff, or they're just too difficult to fix within the existing framework.

The joys of GPL software. So what else is new?