I’m going to slide this over into its own Contribute > Site feedback topic so we can chat about it freely without fear of going off-topic. 
I hope you don’t mind. 
I don’t know if you’d include me as officially part of the ‘team’ yet, but I have read them. 
Though I think I could do a much better job than I have been on leaving some Likes and acknowledgement to show that I have. I’m confident other team members will have read them as well, but I appreciate that without leaving a little something to say they have it can look a lot like no one is listening.
I was genuinely sad to read this. Obviously I love the Discourse Experts programme, as I think it’s one of the main reasons I managed to land this job. I would definitely recommend it if it’s something you’re interested in, and I’ll happily be your onboarding buddy if you want to reach out and ask any questions. 
The others are very generous with their help too (luckily for me, as they know so much more than I do )
I’ve just started as the new Community Moderator for Meta, so I’m really interested in how we can make it feel fun and rewarding for more people to join in and contribute (whether part of the Expert programme or not). It takes a fair bit of time and effort to help other people with their problems, reproduce bugs, etc. and I think it’s important that people feel their contributions are valued.
With that in mind, is there anything you’d like to suggest that I could do differently to make it a more enjoyable experience?