the thing that gets me about criticism of cohost is that people (seemingly not staff!) take it so personally and decide that these criticisms are the end of the world. it's either "cohost is good and great and could use some nebulous improvements, but it's still good and great and the nebulous improvements aren't even really necessary really haha" or "these good faith criticisms are an ATTACK on the staff and you should feel bad, you want them to DIE is that what you want". it feels like there is no in between.
someone says "this site, with it's current implementation of dark mode, is inaccessible to me", and then people come back with "what, you want this site to be twitter? you want just four people to DIE for your accessibility features?? have YOU ever made accessibility features, dipshit"
these criticisms of cohost are not criticisms of you, so you should take them less personally for one. for two, it's okay for someone to say that this site isn't accessible for them, as that also isn't a personal attack on you, how you use the site, your knowledge of development, or any of that.
this site is inaccessible to certain people! it's just a fact, people have been talking about it, they've have explained how it's inaccessible, this is a fact of the website as it exists right now. staff is also not providing updates about this inaccessibility, which is also a fact. people are allowed to get frustrated and critical about these facts! they are also allowed to look at the optics of things going on, like adding beat time or the eggbug plush, and feel frustrated that a highly-requested accessibility feature is seemingly taking a backseat to these things. no one criticizing cohost needs to be a developer or have first-hand experience making accessibility features to say "the site isn't accessible to me, and it doesn't seem like a priority to make it accessible to people like me".
you don't have to do free pr for cohost. you do not have to defend staff's honor. it's okay that people are pointing out the flaws in this site, and it doesn't mean this is a personal attack on you because you like this site.
edit to add “it feels like” in my opening paragraph
