A quick reply while cleaning the breakfast table.
As third (active) core developer, sorry @Prosperous Jordan is community manager not a developer, I can all tell you that we've been pushing hard these last couple of months to move forward. Toby has invested a lot of time to get webpack support in while continuing his education and Franz has been pushing hard to get a foundational refactor out even until the last moment his life changed for good (its not up to me to share the news). I myself have completely refactored the database layout, which is closing in on completion. This in addition to a wide variety of other changes including adding tests. We all have other responsibilities and still do our best to move forward.
And github might not give an honest view of activity, as most commits go into branches instead of master. Committing to master is not done as it creates an unstable environment for extension developers.
Thank you for your patience and your devotion, we hear you!
Woops not a quick reply after all ?