You are absolutely right. The reason we haven't rated or provided good status on packages is merely one of resources. Our project's growing, though, and as more and more people become involved we hope to be able to act more and more professionally.
bboard's disliked because its datamodel is horrific and the code that supports it contains some serious kludges that border on abuse of the object model. It was one of the first ACS 4.0 packages written, when the object model design was new and ArsDigita programmers were struggling to figure out the best way to write packages using it. Almost by definition the first couple of packages written using the new object datamodel were destined to be relatively poorly written.
