I think ultimately it's a very different approach to their current one, so it might be too difficult to do in the existing codebase. Maybe not, I have not looked at the code. But the public docs and learning philosophy around anki all seemed to discourage it, so I decided to make my own thing.

And yeah, I don't think Anki gets a lot of support. I am an open-source maintainer myself, so I know that story.