Absolutely. And getting the public worked up over such an important item is a great way to get the masses into motion :)

I took the time to go over the open tickets in CPAN.pm's RT queue:

1. Allow CPAN.pm to detect bad/old mirrors is on there, with the promise of a fix
2. cpan install $module added last week, with a patch
3. Module::Signature warning appears even when no gpg is present contains a patch (this doesn't fix the bigger issues mentioned by the OP)

There's more at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=CPAN.

The community process seems to be working well enough. Not always as fast as we'd like, but impatience is in our nature, right? :)