Years have gone by and hundreds of comments have been written about the proposal, but the main screen still looks like this:

What do you guys think is the cause of this stagnation? Too much discussion? Too few people willing to fork it?

I've thought about it myself and why I didn't contribute a new main menu and came to the following conclusion: It requires understanding Minetest's codebase and the libraries it uses, it requires C++ experience (which I don't have), and after all that effort there's zero guarantee that it ever gets used.