I have been frustrated with this as well and voiced my concern before. But all they keep on doing is adding features that most of us don't need.
GWT is great, but there is a lot of old stuff in there that is half baked and nobody in the GWT team seems to be concerned with actually fixing bugs.
When I complained about it the only answer (if any) I get is: you are free to send us a patch.
Most of us don't have the time, or even the right to spend our time on working on code for google during our day jobs. And in the evening we need to take care of our family so fixing anything taking more than a few lines of code is totally impossible.
I managed to patch one of the issues I reported, but some things are hard to fix unless you really know the GWT internals very well. There is a bug in the Event dispatching after opening a popup in IE and I really don't know how to fix this one since it goes really deep into the root event handling implementation. There is no developer docs available that explains the architecture and the devs that created the code in the first place are doing other things. I filed the bug report, I wrote in GWT and GWT contrib newsgroups and got 0 responses...
This is the one:
From what I read on google culture it seems like you only get rewarded for writing new stuff, not fixing old stuff (unless it affects a google product launch).
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