@DrunkenAlcoholic if you have a github acct you can easily share your concerns/requests with Josh at the Buddies page. I've reached out from time to time for Budgie-related questions/requests.
Budgie was the flagship here. It always will be to me, but no more.
I understand your concerns. Solus still is the best implementation of Budgie. I did not enjoy Fedora's, or Arch's, or at least 4 others I tried. The closest was some user-spin in Beta for OpenMandriva which was quite lovely.
In my imagination I have to think creators like Josh, Ikey, and even Solus, are always few hundred (or thousand?) dollars aways from where they want to be with going forward. Linux is patience and baby steps sometimes.
