It wouldn't be so bad it the community had some visibility into what are they are working on or what the goals of the next release are. The current stable version is almost a year old. Hasn't even been any security patches in the last year. Being stable is great but even the unstable branch hasn't been updated months.
The RC version changes largely seem focused on opening the door to a subscription model. Yay! A subscription for radio silence and rarely updated software!