We had never the intention to drop the website. We do not profit at all ( only if you "profit" from online shame and harassment ). I even donate myself to the platform and ocasionally to other open source federated software.
We all are human and arent perfect and cant track everything and all things. Lemmy devs ocasionally ignore us because "big instance bad" and the instability in their recent releases and lack of testing LW is 5 or 6 versions now back? Because we dont want to rush and if we make a wrong step with upgrading it causes a blackout on lemmy. Additionally we have some tweaks that we want to backport when we upgrade, that moderation doesnt get hurt by upgrading.
Additionally, please refer to the lemmy github page for feature requests. Please note that lemmy.world is developing lemmy ( the software ).