The thing about any site is, there is going to be a wide variety of people using it. And they all come in with different expectations.
You, for example, seem to have no trouble working for what you want. There are however a ton of lurkers, who no matter how much they want something, won't put the time into getting it (sometimes out of laziness, sometimes out of something else, I know I had some really deep set fears of coming out of lurkerdom when I first joined fandom). And then there are people like me, who love fandom, but always tries to take on more than I have time for, so I don't want to spend what little fandom time I have working on something that either I'm never going to use again after my fervor for it dies down, or, especially, that not very many people are going to use after I work on it (I have too many labours of love going on to spend time on one that isn't going to be used).
Re: OTW Part 2
You, for example, seem to have no trouble working for what you want. There are however a ton of lurkers, who no matter how much they want something, won't put the time into getting it (sometimes out of laziness, sometimes out of something else, I know I had some really deep set fears of coming out of lurkerdom when I first joined fandom). And then there are people like me, who love fandom, but always tries to take on more than I have time for, so I don't want to spend what little fandom time I have working on something that either I'm never going to use again after my fervor for it dies down, or, especially, that not very many people are going to use after I work on it (I have too many labours of love going on to spend time on one that isn't going to be used).