Something I do wish they did was take the plugins that are clearly ubiquitous, and just make them default. It's weird to think that Obsidian might be marching forward nicely, but the maintainer of the Tasks plugin decides to bail.
Emacs has recently been much better about just including by default popular libraries/plugins.
- The author of the popular Minimal theme is now the CEO.
- The author of Kanban, Style Settings, and a couple more plugins has been hired.
- The author of Advanced Tables, Breadcrumbs, and Leaflet plugins has been hired.
Fingers crossed they also hire the Dataview developer, which is in my opinion by far the most powerful plugin available!
I will say though, from my experience (with other software) what usually happens is the original plugins/software get's abandoned or neglected so they can focus on the official implementation. And the official implementations rarely feature match everything from the original.
So hopefully that doesn't happen