jordanjay29 Feel free to open a discussion in Proposals or Feedback on this subject
Honestly, I prefer to work on our own platform, which, since flarum is based on MIT, is just based on flarum. We just forked flarum/flarum, as well as other repos, detached them from originals and continue from there.
Dont get me wrong: I fully understand what flarum is, what it tries to be, I just think that flarum's original author/s has made some extremely low-quality decisions with regards to flarum at the early stage of its existance. One of these decisions is making extensions first-class-citizens.