I suppose in the end, after so many attempts to improve Wikitree, one question keeps coming up: why bother work on any wiki which has been specially tweaked away from everything that works in other wikis in order to make it hard to improve? (Improve means make less wrong. Not caring if we have wrong information means not caring about improving.)
Does that not take the wind out of the sails?
Different non reasons and "I do not understands" abound for every particular case, but the theme is always the same. You just can not get things done on wikitree, whereas the basic idea of a wiki is to make it easy to work, encouraging it to happen massively in small packets.
This wiki will fail unless this changes, and improvement becomes encouraged and easy. We have to realize that wikitree is one experiment among many, that people like myself are trying out and supporting for the time being.
The first wiki to encourage real quality and low tolerance to wrong information in all pre 1700 profiles will be a breakthrough, because it will give a backbone to the rest of the tree that no other tree has.
But please everyone remember that that breakthrough has NOT happened. There is too much complacency in wikitree coming from being the recent big short term "thing". It will not last long like this.
There are many ways in which wikitree is just too quirky, and neutral towards quality.