I doubt this bumping will help.
Possibly not. But this list isn't quite as long as it used to be, and some of the items don't sound too hard for BRL (or for those in the community like Brucey that have the know-how and motivation) to do. I know I've hacked some of the maxgui code to fix bugs in the past and those have eventually made it in. I don't think there's any reason why anything the community produces - so long as it is cross-platform - wouldn't be added. (And no, I'm not going to get into an argument about whether we should be coding for BRL).