Would the Discourse team consider looking towards another open source option such as dragonfly for the installer?
Dragonfly - The Fastest In-Memory Data Store (dragonflydb.io)
I hear its not only a drop in replacement but also much faster?
I did not get to dive into this yet; here is the relevant announcement about it:
Unlikely to be honest, we would far more likely just to move to a fork, there are going to be tons popping up.