Heh, part of my reason for writing these up is so I'll have a single coordinated place to find all the info I might want to find later. (Definitely not comprehensive, but I'm trying to hit all the highlights...)

Either there's a crisis that forces them to act and makes changes instantly OR there's a lot of talk but nothing ever happens, and there doesn't seem to be any middle ground.

Yesssss.

Not my FFA comment, but it makes the point so well that I wanted to quote it too: "Being civil was tried[.] Keeping everything in-house was tried. The only thing producing ANY CHANGE WHATSOEVER in the OTW right now is people being uncivil and airing grievances in public."