You're right of course - and I should have tempered my post with caveats about "if the poster is correct", and "I don't really know much about the internal work

You're right of course - and I should have tempered my post with caveats about "if the poster is correct", and "I don't really know much about the internal workings of the ASF". The main point I was trying to convey was just that there's a cost to not improving things, just as much as there's a cost to things getting worst.