You do realize that Extras is pretty much completely community-side now, right? You are 100% enabled to help out here, rather than just complaining, why not dive in and help? There's maybe a half-dozen people actively putting insane amounts of their free time into it, and nobody else. Heck, after the autobuilder was first released there was exactly one person testing it.

Rather than simply dismissing these efforts out of hand, get behind them and help out. Everybody involved is stretched thin and they need all the help they can get.

Niels, Ed and Mikhail have been putting an insane amount of time getting the autobuilder into shape and providing community support for it (mostly on IRC and in -developers). There's a lot of places you can lay blame, but on these three guy's heads is not one of them.

Jaffa has been putting a lot of time into developing good documentation for the process, which you can find (and help out with) here, and the MUD builder for helping with packaging.

Dismissing these people's (and other's) hard work is really inexcusable.