I might have missed it too, but I don't see what's the core issue. I understand that the lack of moderation tools can be very frustrating, but Lemmy is open source and anyone can do a PR with improvements.

If the devs discard them for no reason or are rude I would understand the "they don't want any help" argument, but I saw no example.

Creating another social media project is just splitting efforts and I'm not sure if the amount of work is not being underestimated by a big margin.