I understand all that and am not criticizing the pace of lemmy development. My frustration is that in the past, you've said hashtags don't make sense for lemmy because communities are the organizational method. Even in your other comment to the OP in this thread, you said
I dont think it makes sense to implement federated hashtags before we have post tags in Lemmy figured out.
But federated hashtags already work across the fediverse. Implementation details are basically settled. I don't know what you mean by post tags, but any other feature that uses a tag-like mechanism would have to work well alongside the currently standard way of using hashtags in order for lemmy's hashtags to remain interoperable with the fediverse.
It seems that you don't personally care about federated hashtags and so this feature will probably remain at the bottom of the priority list and that's what we're lamenting about in this thread. Federated hashtags would increase interoperability with the rest of the fediverse and would improve the overall experience so its a bummer that yall don't see that.