I agree more improvements are needed but hard forks are necessarily rare (other than in cases of emergency, which hopefully don't happen) and developer focus (which for the next fork at least is mostly on SMTs) is even more scarce. After that we are looking at several months to a year. We should continue brainstorming and discussions but I don't see a quick fix in the blockchain itself.

In the mean time it is possible for the community to do some good with the tools we have, although not everything, as you correctly point out.