This is a bit of a digression, but since this topic attracted a lot of eyes interested in Postgres and databases… Is there any hope of improvements to database

This is a bit of a digression, but since this topic attracted a lot of eyes interested in Postgres and databases… Is there any hope of improvements to database backup (dump) functionality of Postgres? Coming from SQL Server (and it seems to me that there’s not a lot of people who have experience with both) - I was really taken by surprise how badly performant Postgres dumps are in terms of both backup and restore speed, as well as backup size of similarly sized databases.