I understand, that being said this is our roadmap. The issue is we are listening to the community and what the community wants. That means we don’t have a concrete roadmap until the community has voted. V1 will be maintained for the foreseeable future so if you decide to stay on V1 (WP 4.9) you are welcome to.
This is by design. If you don’t agree with a petition you are welcome to discuss the reasons why in the comments. Just downvoting wouldn’t achieve anything other than making the person who submitted the petition feel as if they have been silenced (leading to them likely not submitting petitions again in the future).
If you ever discover this, you are welcome to migrate back to WP. This is relatively easy using FTP but we plan to include this feature in our migration plugin.
These would be great petitions to see if the wider community is interested in something like this.
Reaching out to plugin devs, I suggest you read the following discussion:
This is something we are working on, but will take time. We have begun work on the plugin directory and with that we will hopefully start seeing more plugins list support CP.