Taking it back to basics, why even ask permission?  If you don't like what's in the current code, create your own client.  Create an account on GitHub, select the option to fork the codebase, make whatever changes you like.  Then release it.  Share it around.  That way, you start to get a sense of what support a given proposal truly has.  Remove talk from the equation.  Talk is cheap.

Also, people talk about "voting" as though they have some sort of influence on what appears on a candidate's manifesto and election pledges.  But that's not how that works.  The candidates tell you what they stand for and then you pick the candidate.  But it's better than that here, because you can make yourself a candidate!  When discussion fails, just go ahead and do it anyway.  Don't waste time bleating false equivalences about "voting".  Just create what you like, see who runs the code and let the consensus mechanism sort it all out.

And if you don't know how to code, you can pay a coder to write code.  You could pay a whole bunch of them.  Fund an entire dev team.  If you don't have money, you can crowdsource.  But no, people just want to complain and do nothing constructive to even try to change the situation.  And that's why the status quo remains.

No one actually wants to lift a finger to make something happen.  It's just a bunch of noisy armchair pundits.  What else is there to tell them?