Offhand I can name some five dedicated individuals with experience who would like to be part of the team and do it for free.
It's their loss...
It's their loss...
Why don't they write an alternative module and release it into the public domain? That's why the standard modules are all open sourced, anyway. Max is designed to be extended by the public.
Actually, I'm guessing that those individuals you mention are already in the process of writing their own modules, and are too busy to moan.