You constantly present ideas and seem to have a drive to help make the game better. If you think that more imms would help alleviate some of the problems that exist, step right up and help out.

Generally speaking, when another imm goes dormant if they have followers, we do try to pick up and keep things moving for that character. We have a pretty good looking out for each other in terms of cabal management and keeping tabs on followers.

Areas are typically something that we avoid tweaking while the author is still around (unless its bug related stuff) out of respect to said author. I know that probably isn't the answer you were looking for, but its certainly one of the main reasons that your frustrations re ST exist.