IIRC many of those open issues/tickets are requests for half-baked features that are being rejected because that are out-of-scope for DBIx::Class. The developers could not get an agreement over the threshold of feature-complete and then the owner put a brake on development, which I completely understand from a burn-out perspective: you don't want to lead a team that is only in disagreement.

I share Corion's view.

I do not see an easy way-out of this dilemma.