> If human coders become the bottleneck in the chain

This "human bottleneck" is why we have QGIS in the first place. I think they deserve a bit more respect than that.

> If human coders become the bottleneck in the chain, the solution is obvious and there's only so much protection anyone can do.

Which chain? It’s not like there’s much productivity going on. There’s a lot of activity for very little impact.