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The challenge, as we see it, is not that we didn't address open issues (we've put out a release every 3 weeks for the past 4+ years!), the challenge instead is that we didn't explain how we pick the issues that we do to work on. That is being addressed and you'll soon see us share our process transparently.

With close to 400K monthly active developers using our library and over 9M monthly downloads on NPM, one can imagine that the issues keep piling up!

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From an outside perspective it seems like issues are prioritized based on how easy they are to fix.

To be fair this kind of makes sense, especially when the thing that makes many tasks difficult is finding solutions that don't break existing usage.

Yep, I can totally see how that may come across. Hopefully, once we publish our process, all of this becomes clear and the community can be part of the selection process itself.

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