Thanks for your response, Trollheart. I just have a little time to respond atm.
I am well aware that the community at large don't mirror my ambitions for this place, which is why I wrote I'm fortunately not riddled with the headache of running things
It was that way when I was a mod and it seems probably even more so now.
If I'd had my way, we would've demanded some things from Advameg some ten-ish years ago and, had they not delivered, moved to a different place with the uncertainties and possibilities that that would bring. The alternate MB timeline I would've wanted is very different from the one we're currently in.
Perhaps you mistake my continuing requests or suggestions to mean I don't realize this distance between myself and the community at large, but I do. I'm just tenacious. Now that I post relatively rarely, suggestions getting shot down doesn't phase me much. But as a mod, it certainly did become a source of frustration.