I suppose it's not about patents or copyright but rather the fear that a re-submitted patch can't be trusted because the original patch is considered not trustworthy, or that the resubmission is carried out by the sanction person itself or a friend under an email address that doesn't fall under the sanctions. Either way, it could be seen as a liability.
In what general direction would the innovation be?
I'm not sure if it's actually needed - a lot of things have been tried and the paradigms that persisted you can choose between but it seems to be a matter of taste. I often feel that the real issue is the lack of maturity and stability. I rather want a complete UI toolkit including learning resources (not reference docs!), no matter how boring, instead of super clever implementation that is never in a usable state.
A fork of OnlyOffice with some big names behind it who want to make it easier to build and contribute to, great. Yet LibreOffice seems to remain the only FOSS office solution with native apps (although they aren't particularly good).
My dog doesn't react to familiar voices over the phone at all. The compression and reproduction of audio, while fine for humans, definitely doesn't work for her animal ears.
Zig has the concept of illegal behavior, of which a subset is unchecked illegal behavior - basically undefined behavior, but if evaluated at comptime, it results in a compile error. The documentation also states that most illegal behavior is safety-checked unless you use the ReleaseFast or ReleaseSmall optimization modes (and don't enable safety checks for individual blocks).
I liked Zulip a lot until that Flutter rewrite. Maybe it's more accessible now but the new look is not for me. I believe the app navigation is largely unchanged, and still doesn't quite feel right. I love the topic-based model nonetheless.
Funny you would mention GitLab - I find it extremely clunky, especially compared to GitHub. Maybe GitHub is primitive in comparison, but it never makes me hunt for basic functionality and the search just works for about everything.