I'll PM Reggie and ask him to reply in this thread as it doesn't really matter how much we discuss this if there is no ability/willingness to change the forums.

If there isn't, then maybe a whole new site for pre-N900 devices/OS may be the way to go, as brought up by a few others.
That way people who find this forum hard to navigate would at least have an option - a site dedicated to non-N900 topics - and the ones that don't mind the current setup can remain here.