What I am doing to save this site.

[grandmaster-huon]

Why isn't the foundation doing anything about this? They are mainly PR now.

I spent the last 15+ years telling people, IN PUBLIC, that the WMF is rotten and the WP insiders are even more rotten. You are delusional if you think anything will "change" suddenly. Or ever. I still expect the WMF will crash and burn before there is serious "reform".

How did it become so bad?

[Ognistysztorm]

But quality over quantity, all the time.

Deletionism often leads to systemic biases, which ironically means a decline of quality.

[Archer]

Wikipedia appears to function as intended i.e. as a tool for manipulating public opinion. I think any serious critique of Wikipedia should make this point very clear and disabuse the reader of the notion that Wikipedia merely suffers from some sort of inevitable, garden-variety corruption or cronyism. Nobody can really call you a "conspiracy nut" - despite the constant media exposure and universally-negative depiction this trope receives, most people know a serious argument when they see it and won't give you any lip. Only the propagandist is shameless enough to make an ass of themselves using ad hominems, which are easily dispensed with by pointing out the fallacy. So much bogus critique (e.g. the drivel on wikipediocracy and most academic papers) replaces one illusion with another (usually more cynical and fatalistic) illusion. This serves no purpose except helping the Charlatans triage the people who see through their lies and habituating people to their criminal behavior. The credulous masses are not nearly so wretched as the poor, gutless bastards who yield to this second deception. The people who run Wikipedia (or any other propaganda apparatus) have no intention to address the obvious problems (often having equally obvious solutions) outsiders see, nor will they allow the general public to do so. At the very least, doesn't it seem a bit silly to write a critique for the sake of Wikipedia itself? Surely most of what we can observe is not news to the Wikipedia administration. WP:AGF is mind-poison because they intended it as mind-poison, not because everyone in Wikipedia's administration are too stupid to write effective policy.