On previous versions there were power losses near max speed which worked out well as hitting top speed felt smooth, this was fixed and now it performs well till full speed when you get an abrupt power loss, for skaters this can throw people off balance, i think there is also some interplay with 2 motors where it may happen slightly out of sync. Setting the power to taper off as it approaches 95% duty cycle seems to make skateboarders happy.
Frank does not write or manage the software, if you would like ben to migrate his project to gerrit, you would be better off talking to ben. But i would like to point out, that none of the people currently complaining here actually are contributors AFAIK. I don’t think any of the currently active contributors have any major problems with the current system.