In reply to Ed.

The problem is the pool of community-driven individuals who do these reviews of plugins and themes (for free mind you) is much smaller then the pool of total users and developers. For example, Mika works for a web hosting company, with the company being nice enough to pay for some of Mika's time to help out at WordPress.org. She does not "work" for WordPress.org. Neither does anyone in the theme review team - maybe one works for Automattic? So that means until we can "develop" more community-minded folks to help out, we'll always have this issue. Actually I don't think its a completely solvable problem due to human nature (self-interest versus community interest and just general priorities of individuals that can change over time). I do think we can reduce the burden of entry though and that will help in encouraging more engagement.