You know how this can be done: restrict access to the tooling to everyone but a handful.

Right now we are all pulling the rope to opposite sides and not saving the little kitten. We are in-fighting with the current tools, between contributors, between reviewers, between everything and getting absolutely nothing done, not even badly done.

You need less people calling the shoots and less hands into the jar! Less people able to submit stuff and less people able to review it. At least, that way we can solve stuff that doesn't present itself when you scale, to then solve the problem of scale. Having less problems to solve all at once is more productive than having all the problems cropping up and trying to solve them at the same time. Lets focus on one problem, which I believe the most important is: what's expected of this thing. Then when we figure out that, we can start tackling the scale problems or whatever becomes the next thing.

You know how this can be done: restrict access to the tooling to everyone but a handful.

Right now we are all pulling the rope to opposite sides and not saving the little kitten. We are in-fighting with the current tools, between contributors, between reviewers, between everything and getting absolutely nothing done, not even badly done.

You need fewer people calling the shots and fewer hands into the jar! Fewer people able to submit stuff and fewer people able to review it. At least, that way we can solve stuff that doesn't present itself when you scale, to then solve the problem of scale. Having fewer problems to solve all at once is more productive than having all the problems cropping up and trying to solve them at the same time. Let's focus on one problem, which I believe the most important is: what's expected of this thing. Then when we figure out that, we can start tackling the scale problems or whatever becomes the next thing.