Every time I see something on this subject I jump on it, hoping to read something new and exciting is going to happen to the repos.

Always I am disappointed, and today is no different.

A couple of things spring immediately to mind.

1) Analysis paralysis.
2) Design by committee.

And the noise to signal ratio on this issue makes it impossible to discern whether something of any value is actually happening and, if so, is it going to happen over anything less than an evolutionary timescale, I wonder?

My input, for what its worth, is as follows:

A) paint dries faster, and its more interesting to watch.
B) a camel ~ the horse designed by a committee.

"It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." --Steve Jobs