Thank you everybody so far for the thoughts. I’ve lot’s to think about, more than the bits I mention below, but it is a start.
@alexandros’s point about keeping it minimalist makes sense. I agree that it’s hard to keep doing with large curated lists on a volunteer basis. I’ve also thought about how to crowdsource the list, along the lines of what @schnerring has suggested, but I too worry about the quality of list.
It seem seems to me that there two conflicting needs/goals: a way to find out all of what’s out there when one is developing, and the other is a need for trustworthy and quality modules when one just wants to grab it and use it to quickly achieve what one was after.
It’s really the same problem for modules as for themes. In the case of themes we have the former, but the lack of the latter is what led to my post that @alexandros mentioned:
I guess the first thing to figure out is which use case is more urgently needed module-wise and concentrate on that. If I can figure out how to do a poll on Discourse, I’ll see about creating one.