I'm pretty sure this is not the first time you've ranted about this XD
Philosophically I think any pushback will be a resistance to censorship that is taken to the most absurd extremes (the kind where people decide that anyone who disagrees with their opinion or whatever else they're is somehow oppressing and censoring them which is super easy to stretch into they're being censored because someone actively doesn't want to listen to them for whatever reason).
Technically there may be some back end stuff that's making implementing some of those changes "interesting" (when I did use to do dev stuff, there were times when something that "shouldn't take too long" according to people that had no idea how anything worked but at the idea level seemed "easy" enough, would require a significant refactor if not burn the whole thing down and try again which I sometimes wanted to do but couldn't for whatever reason).
And there's the time factor; if it's not a full time job and there isn't a large or at least cohesive team working on a big project (you probably have more experience than I do in this general area), it's just going to take forever no matter what anyone wants. I think you're right and that we wouldn't have trouble scraping the money together, I feel like it may be more finding people who are able and willing to put in the work to get it done.
and that mute thing is a bit of a problem isn't it x_x
Every now and then my rants escape from my head onto the computer. I think the real problem is literally no one is working on it.
Hence my last comment about finding the money being much less of an issue than finding people both able and willing to put in the time and the effort :)