A long time ago, Jon found that changes made for some users made other users unhappy. Thus, he makes changes very conservatively.
He has Bert's roadmap, and I would expect that they use it as a guide to improvements.
If you make changes to one area, they often cause problems in others. If you are trying to correct the V6 problems, then add the changes by a separate programmer to improve the letter writer (for example) you may wind up chasing down problems all over the place. Are the new errors from your V6 changes or from the letterwriter new code?
Thus, programming proceeds at the pace that Jon has determined. I for one accept that as insurance that the program proceeds in a slow orderly pace.
I suspect that money is not the roadblock to implementing the changes. While I may have a somewhat different priority to what should be fixed, if you look at the changes over the past 2 years, they are impressive and significant, as well as consistent in their overall direction.
Unfortunately, we have all been sidetracked by Meaningful Use and the Chase for the Government Money (sounds like the title to the next Indiana Jones movie)
