Yeah sadly we just don't seem to have anyone willing and able to work on the backend of communities since steemit Inc. Which means it hasn't been touched for upgrades in 18 months.
Perhaps we need to find outside help and bribe them with proposal money perhaps?
I think there was someone who came into developer chat asking what would be best to work on and @blocktrades and @howo told him to look into getting good at hivemind development but not sure what ever happened with that.
Each time I look at peakd visitor analytics i realize just how important communities are.
Here's to hoping.