There are so many filesystems. So. Many.

Have any of them considered actually dropping some and pooling efforts into the more promising ones?

Lmao, indirectly, you could say.

A lot of projects are named after spouses and family lol

Things have been headed this way for a loooong time. That said, unless I can self-host something like this, I’m not interested.

Have you seen VyOS? It’s a Debian based router OS that effectively acts as a wrapper for FRRouting. It’s very good.