Exactly. It seems to me that things are actually going fine.
We just need to keep that moving. Julia is almost entirely built on pull requests to base and packages. Code, docs whatever: PRs are where things actually happen and real decisions and changes are made. Not in these threads.
So improving Julia is very closely correlated with how many PRs are written and merged in base and the ecosystem.
Fix correctness in base and packages, improve docs, add missing functionality, write cool new things. Isn’t that what needs to happen? Isn’t it that simple?
My answer to the question of this thread is, if you’re not already, go write a PR or help someone else write one.