Your first argument is an idiot argument. "You should load up a whole nother program in order to check other mods of the same game, in order that I don't have to check the "filter" box to see only Crpg servers." Which takes longer? All I want to do is log out, check if PW has any people on for instance, and then if not, log back in to Crpg. Considering the permafilter's ONLY advantage is negating 2 mouse clicks...I have to say that it is stupid as fuck. I can't express myself any differently. There is simply no good reason.
Your second revelation is dumb as hell: why do I need to log in to some Mantis crap to see a changelog for a public mod? That looks like it is a bug tracker...you know...for Devs. Am I a dev? No, I am a player. I don't want to see your bug tracker, I want to see the actual changes that have been made this patch.
It's literally not even 5 minutes of work for a Dev to copy the Bug tracker list, clean it up a bit, and add it to a part of the launcher "Show Changelog."