At a guess the reason it is minimal is because there wasn't much dev work on it for a long time. If other devs had turned up and added missing features they wo

At a guess the reason it is minimal is because there wasn't much dev work on it for a long time. If other devs had turned up and added missing features they would have been added. Also; newer features like meshgradient haven't been in Cairo for very long. Afaict Features get added in unescape as its open source, a soft of neutral ground + with authoring capability and artists in the community making it easy to demo proposed patches.