I prefer realist, but I accept that most people don't see it that way.
We're the only site dedicated to English-language mags that even HAS a database. Oldgamemags is mostly concerned with churning out massive numbers of new scans on a regular basis (nothing wrong with that), and the Out of Print Archive is mainly concerned with scanning and rescanning and RESCANNING the same few mags over and over in an ongoing quest to reach god-like perfection with their release quality
Phillyman is the one that handles the finances around here, but any modifications to the site like this involve hiring a programmer, and that costs $$$. I'm currently hoping for a site mod that will allow people who donate mags and people who scan mags to be able to receive credit for doing so (believe it or not, the only person currently capable of receiving any credit is the person who edits the scan). But these things cost money, and there are server fees and everything else that have to be paid for to keep the site running before additional mods can be worked into the budget, especially since any such mods often become broken whenever a new version of the site's software is released, and programmers have to be hired to rework any previous mods so they're compatible with new software versions.
True, everyone has their niche. Phillyman will knock out some scans every once in a while, but he hates editing them. E-Day edits like a beast, but hates working on the database. Areala writes the most wonderfully robust contents indexes, but doesn't scan/edit magazines or add new entries to the DB. I do a little of everything on the magazine side of things (gallery, database, scans&edits), and all of the Japanese sections on this site are essentially my baby, but I have no interest in working on most of the other foreign-language sections (thanks to MigJmz for his recent efforts in adding Brazilian releases), or in helping to flesh out the video game section, even if the proposed tags become a thing.
So the labor is already somewhat divided. The problem is simply how few people there are doing any labor at all. But who knows? Maybe there are a boatload of members out there who have no interest in scanning, editing, contributing to the gallery, or indexing magazine contents via text, but they're chomping at the bit to index magazine contest via tags, if only there was such a system in place. We may never know if Schrödinger's cat is alive or dead until we open that box, but in the meantime let's at least be optimists and assume that the flask of poison in there with it is half-FULL, not half empty.