It is a community driven project, which is exactly why these issues happen. If were all doing this as part of our jobs, we’d have all the time in the world to focus on various Fedora things—like our packages. It’s because it’s a volunteer community project that we are constantly prioritising and reprioritising tasks, which means that low priority tasks don’t get the attention someone else (like a user) thinks they deserve—sometimes we never get to certain tasks.
When it comes to package maintenance, we’re always short of human resources. We have thousands of packages, and not enough maintainers. That really is the issue—not that people don’t care. There are also lots of times that we package maintainers take on packages that we don’t use, because a package we do use depends on it—but this does mean it’s more about keeping the dependency alive and not really looking after it.
There certainly are Red Hat people that look after packages—often packages that are of interest to Red Hat—and we are grateful for this because, these are usually critical packages that would suffer if they weren’t given the attention they need (the kernel for example).
I don’t have an answer/solution to the lack of human resources—it’s always been an issue, not just with package maintenance, but also other parts of the community—the docs/design/marketing/you name it. This is also not unique to Fedora. It’s a common characteristic of all the volunteer communities I participate in.
Automation helps, improving onboarding helps, sharing loads helps, but yeh, if there’s more work than we can collectively manage, something will remain undone.
I cannot speak for this particular case, only the maintainers can. I can only empathise with both you and the maintainer, because i’ve been on both sides of this too 
There is the non-responsive maintainer process if you’d like to trigger that. It may not solve the issue, but it should elicit a response. Reaching out the maintainer via communication channels (e-mail/chat/bumping the bugzilla bug) is probably worth doing before triggering the process, though:
PS: i edited your post to remove people’s e-mails. You can tag people here using their Fedora account usernames if you wish.
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@steppybug i disagree with your view and your “observations”. there’s no gatekeeping—have you had an issue where you “haven’t been allowed in”? Otherwise, this is not OK to say, as you are not being excellent to the community in general. The CoC requires you to be, in all community channels. Please feel free to criticise the work/the system, but not the people.