I tried to find out why kitchen tubs and showers might be a thing (back when some were first posted here) and read an article about how ages ago in new york, landlords were required by law to provide baths for tenants. So they just stuck them where there was already a water hookup. So, in old apartments in New York, you'll occasionally run into a kitchen tub.
So far that new knowledge has been completely irrelevant to the kitchen/bath situations posted here, but maybe someday it will be useful that I know that now and I won't be left assuming a fetish situation.
Setting aside politics for a second, their size could prematurely erase any identity kbin was going to develop.
I also think we need better mod tools before federating with big, active communities. And the ability to have someone take over magazines without active mods, so the little magazines getting by without them don't just become spam havens for shitheads. Some of that should get added in the next big update.