In reply to theMojoWill.

So @otto, what is the chance that this will be made obvious to more than the 10 people involved in this discussion right now? IIRC neither the email address nor the slack channel are easy to find, at least neither of them are specified here https://wordpress.org/plugins/ and I can’t think of any other places where people should look for it.
It is hard to have any meaningful discussion with the plugin repository team when you can’t find a way to contact them.