Your comments a good.
The image gallery is being developed right now. Check the forum to see the progress.
Easier Plugin installation is also being looked at.
Now the standard line about Open Source software.
You are more then welcome to help out with coding. Since you seem to think coding only takes a few days, feel free to help. There are only a few people that code and they do it in there spare time. (I'm not one of them.)
If you have some feature request, please submit them on the project page.
Features