The volunteer line is fine for big picture stuff that is going to require a lot of work and planing to get right. Using that for smaller feature requests is going to give the impression that D is lacking in the technical expertise to get anything done, It's often a sign that an open source project is dying. I don't think anybody wants that.

On the other hand take a little time to try and get your point accross without being unnecessarily confrontational. Not because you aren't right but because it takes less time than rehashing these conversations and I know for a fact that some of you have way more productive things to do with your time than this ;)