I am suggesting that, because as I mentioned it looks understaffed from the outside, either that or there isn't that much willingness to spend resources on improving it beyond "good enough".

Given that you mentioned, that there were actually so many LLVM engineers around, I thought they could give them an hand. :)

Regarding the clang regressations:

https://github.com/android/ndk/issues/742

https://github.com/android/ndk/issues/721

There are way less than I remembered though, sorry for the confusion.