I'm really convinced that I'm being toyed with by a community software

Thanks! Really appreciated reading all your feedback for our product. We’re definitely trying to simplify the admin experience and will be making improvements in the areas you’ve mentioned.

We also usually have our new hires run through a self-hosted setup on a provider, so we’ll try and run through that again to see what we can streamline.

By the way from your screenshot, the translation key above says

js.notifications.titles.linked_consolidated

so it isn’t “likes” → “点赞”, but should be “link” → “链接”

There is a similar key

js.notifications.titles.likes_consolidated

which would be “点赞” though.