An update on bcachefs

I know it's had issues but it's this bad rap history that follows it around that I think does more reputation damage than the current code deserves. This is one of the reasons it bothers me so much that Redhat decided to devote resources to expanding feature to XFS instead of spending those resources stabilizing btrfs. Btrfs could be IMO the best filesystem Linux has ever had if we could get experienced filesystem developers working on it instead of everyone developing their own filesystem. Which is probably why Redhat's decision bothers me.

It just seems like everyone wants to work on something new rather than try to fix what we've got. I get that, fixing bugs is hard and boring rather than developing something new and shiny. But that new and shiny is still going to take 10 years to stabilize just like every filesystem Linux has had.

This is actually a question I'd like to see answered at one of these filesystem conventions, Why is it so hard to get experienced developers to work stabilizing the fs's we have rather than building new ones?