I still don't see a good argument why we made our system so inflexible, that obviously needed change needs such high amount of work, PR and proof.
Trying to improve gaming in gentoo took me 2 years full of work just to realize it is a dead end and I am doing most of the work alone. The necessity was obvious. Trying to improve a tiny fraction about gentoo workflow (including your attempts) already took more than 4(?) years with never ending excuses. The necessity was more than obvious. Now I could talk about similarly obvious things. Sure, not all issues are obvious and those shouldn't be easy to push through. You can draw your conclusions about this. I drew mine: small changes will not get us out of here. Have fun, if you can.