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There isn't any political pressure from Red Hat. They're often the only company that does any work on the input stack in userspace, without them it would probably not even exist or be stuck in a very old state. You can complain but it's unlikely to be of much use when the real issue is lack of manpower and there just aren't enough people to respond to all the complaints users have. A surefire way to solve that would be to start contributing, Red Hat won't stand in your way.