Summary: Swept under the rug are a bunch of perfectly legitimateEPO problems, which EPO staff (through the union and staff representatives) keeps bringing up, only to meet the deaf ears and iron fists of Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos since one decade ago
If people are willing to tolerate standard declines and enshittification (nowadays sold as "pivot to AI" or "replaced by AI" or "AI layoffs") they will pay for it some other way
One common concern when things go "live" is that any random bot out there can execute queries, pumping up RAM and CPU usage, as happened when we used MediaWiki and WordPress