Then jump in and change it. Show us how some easy code edits of this customized Everything Engine will make it work like a Stack Exchange site. But don’t suggest someone else should be doing something you call easy if you won’t step up. From my seat you sound like you’re about to launch into Classic Anonymous Monk conspiracy theory about how the porters and p6 and M$FT and Big Web conspire to keep the site at v1 and kill the One True Perl. And the claim of something being easy without anything to back it up is pure Sundial.