In all honesty, I doubt that we would have the weight/air restriction system (ballast&handicaps) in place without the constant forum noise. Same with the starts system and the increase of the maximum amount of players on servers.
AutoX deserves to be fixed imho. The fact that the barriers are broken has and does severely limit the way you can use them. But then the collision system needs an update as well. Adding few autoX objects shouldn't be major task along with some big autocross area, in addition of fixing the autoX objects. For example, this would greatly increase the chances of seeing and racing the MRT online, a car that is pretty dead atm. The autoX system is something LFS has and other don't. It is a great tool that can be used to create tracks and other stuff but is still seen so rarely online. Atm. autoX is so broken that it can't be taken seriously imho
. Improving the autoX would also bring some more content, quite easily as well.
Maybe this is one of the issues that need a small push at times, even if it is an annoyance to hear the same thing all the time?