Events happened that lead to psychological distress but also lead to developments of a new DB system. Slowly and steadily.
Positive or constructive feedback makes me happy to work on it. Complaints and negativity do the opposite. There is lots to do (e.g. How should a new frontpage look like?) and contributions always give a huge boost in productivity.
I invited you @Jugador to a beta test back in January already! But maybe the chat system is too confusing too, sorry about that… I’ll add you to the beta testing forum group, hopefully that is easier. Then you can check out the new features already. 
The new DB already has all the new releases imported. The new forum is, well, a modern fancy-shmancy forum. I am not 100% happy with it, but it allowed me to handle user accounts and authentication AND comments and ratings without having to write bad code myself, so there was no way around it.
I totally agree that the new way of adding ratings is not very convenient or intuitive. It is possible to re-create the UX of the old site but I lack the time. If someone wants to help, it would be awesome. The task would be to add/update a Discourse post (=comment + rating) via the API and having a nice frontend for it. And/or make https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-ratings better.