Definitely not xD

Won't fix usability issues with being the first subscriber to a community from an instance, won't add multi-community views, won't add support for grouping same-name communities from different instances, won't add moderator tools, won't add more granular federation options like Mastodon has, won't fix certain Mastodon -> Lemmy headaches they're dealing with, won't add different approval modes for users to instances, etc etc.

There's still a lot of work remaining to be done. WebSocket-related bugginess and the rankings are on the docket though.

Not sure what you're on about, the PR with the fix is merged and ready for the next release version.

0.18 will also remove websockets which will improve performance and error handling, but it will likely have it's own complications.

They're building the plane as we're flying and simultaneously boarding more passengers.

You can check out the 0.18 beta, https://beta.discuss.online