I replied when I had the time to give a reply.
As a team, we do have other ways of communicating in real time and do not rely on the forum. Regarding the forum, we do get notifications of all posts that others make by automatic system.
Thing is, most of the time when I get the notification, I will be busy with something else and unable to respond immediately. So I just put a mental note to reply later. If this "busy-time" extends to more than a couple of days, I will simply forget about it completely. I am a rusty old man by now anyway.
From time to time, I will do a round-up of topics in the forum that I have not read. If something useful is there, my idea is that it's better to respond late than never. And that's quite simply what has happened here.
On your concerns, which are quite valid: TOSEC was never a huge organization, even on the prime days when rom hunting was a pretty new thing and emulating a Megadrive properly was still a big deal. Many years have passed since then and the 20-25 year olds of that time with a lot of spare time have become 45 year olds with real works and families. Nowadays there are maybe 10 people working on TOSEC in their spare time. Some of them have specific interests (especially Commodore falls into this category) and a few others do broader work. We could use more hands, but it's proven over many years that people able and willing to do this kind of work are extremely rare. Needless to say, if anyone appears and wishes to help, they are most welcome to join us.
This doesn't affect only TOSEC, but more or less all similar "organizations". Eg, I have posted many PSP verifies in NoIntro a month or so ago, which are not added yet because there's not a single standard maintainer for PSP in NoIntro. Or, I hope you realize that most of the mighty work that archive.org has done in old systems preservation was only the work of a single person, Jason Scott. I don't know why people believe there are some kind of massive organizations behind all this archival work. There aren't any.
My personal way of working does not involve use of any tools apart from ClrMAME Pro to get the hashes of new files.
PandMonium is the site maintainer and also doing most of the development work for us, but he is usually quite busy as well and probably fixing these relatively low importance niggles is not a high priority for him. If he happens to see the post, he may be able to tell more about his point of view on the matter.
