First, thanks Odonoptera for clarifying issues on these forums. It's good to have some more active community management here.
Secondly, it's good to hear that the dev team is working on the items described in Cirith's farewell message. What would be nice to have at some point is some kind of a mission statement by the current dev team (Tilty, Mussagana, and any new people as indicated in your original post) - i.e. a statement which sets out their longer term goals as opposed to what is currently being worked on.
There's plenty of stuff which has been mentioned by devs in the past, and is currently floating around in the ether - for example,
* the crafting revamp,
* potential class revamps,
* potential changes to the minigame signup system,
* the Slithering Chaos dungeon / mini-raid.
To the extent that this can be shared with players, it would be nice to get an understanding of where the dev team's current priorities are, what they are considering for the mid- to longer term, and whether anything is definitely off the books. Obviously, if they are considering other items which have not previously been discussed, that would also be good to know