Core challenges like Commons stability + capacity deserve their own thread! I believe the wishlist is traditionally for something else.
There is nowhere else to raise these issue, especially for people like me who are photographers not a software and tech person. I know the phabricator exists and comment there occasionally but again things get close because its too hard.
Tools are great, new tools can sometimes improve other times they generate more issues.
I get it I'd rather get together with a bunch of photographers, talk gear, test gear, and look to outdo each other with the best shots. Wishlist, the Hack-a-thons serve this need for the tech community. we get to offer up some ideas on what could make things easier for us. The wish list also the one time of the year where everyone is listen to needs.
The list of issues on Commons are staggering and Commons feeds into every other project, it was created to support media uploads. As part of COT for 2021 I was also involved in uploading of all the session recordings, and I answered many questions about why was it taking so long, will captions be added all I could say was Commons wasnt letting us upload large files, Video2Commons, and VideoConverter kept falling over we couldnt get answers. We found work arounds mostly by paying for 3rd commercial software to do the conversion to webm then hoping uploadwizard would work. We even tried to find server side uploading support but despite instructions on how that isnt supported.
I see no need to create new tools when the underlying systems are failing, its clear indication that we as community have lost our way. The wishlist get what little funding the WMF is willing to spend on tech. As some who has participated in the wishlist over the years, tried to get funding to fix items like QRpedia, the thing I see is that this isnt working the tech teams arent keeping up with the core functions of projects so forget about extra toys. Every other aspect of the community has had reviews been first being paused, the whole community has been consulted, and then its been realigned to suit future needs. Its all for nothing if we dont drill down to the core of the tech that the whole thing relies upon, if that means we need to spend on extra people then the cost is justifiable because every dollar of the hundred million stashed away in future funds is worthless if the systems keeps failing or like commons appears to have reached completely collapses.
We dont need wishes, or votes to decide whats important when theres no way to contribute.