LW are hesitant to do major changes because if something goes wrong it disrupts the entire Lemmy ecosystem. It’s a direct negative consequence of them growing too big, but once they’re in this position I can understand their reservations. I too wish they’d implement upgrades faster but I have no reason to believe they will just refuse to implement an upgrade forever, that’s unreasonable to assume.

Lemmy.nz is what, about 100 MAU? And I know a Blåhaj admin is Australian but Fedi Observer has the server listed as based in Finland and hosted in Germany. Don’t know if that’s wrong though. Are their users also reporting delays?