Which are 2 years and 12 months old with little to no work done on each.

And as a counterpoint:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/233

Open, locked, and 17 years old.

GNOME cares about nothing that doesn't fit precisely into their "vision". This could turn out well! But it doesn't change the situation for any external contributors, or anyone who wants functionality changed in a way that the GNOMEr's that be don't agree with.

That's not a counterpoint, the rest of your comment doesn't follow either. Check the most recent comment for suggestions on how to help out with changing the functionality: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/233#note_1106706

If you've got some code to contribute to that, ping the developers on IRC. Adding more comments to that issue isn't helpful. These issues aren't suffering from a lack of comments, they're missing someone to step up and do the work. The original comment was that they were hostile to this, which isn't true.

The first is two years old the second one is a rehash of a two year old issube Since this is about when gnome switched to gitlab they might be further history.

They have a history of finite resources and inability to resolve issues in a timely fashion. They ought to set goals and raise money. People really need to commit their money if they want nice things.