You seem very opinionated for someone so new to the site (not that that's a bad thing in general).

There have been changes (for the better, and worse) since Artashes took over the helm and things do appear to be dragging along. I've no idea whether that's the case behind-the-scenes, but from a client-facing (i.e. us) point of view it's just same-old-TF: lots of best wishes but little in the way of real change of any sort.