But that was in the time when FTB was a supposed to be a accessible place for people to share modpacks with friends. Not a place of dictating modding trends. Slowpoke wanted just one or 2 official FTB packs to play their map on easy and hard mode. FTB lost it's original purpose when all those moderators started dictating official modpacks.
Eloraam and all other modders were giving permissions on hype because Slowpoke really had a great vision.
FTB team was supposed to maintain just 2 packs for their original map. All other packs were supposed to be private. That was like what, 2 years ago?
And now we have 23 FTB team packs packs, 3 voxel packs and a total of 9 private packs. 9 after 2 years. Are there no people interested in posting their modpack or is FTB team blocking everything for some reason?
The vision was lost when FTB was made into a business product. It was then that Slowpoke realized that the volatility of mod updates did not create a very sustainable model of business, and thus he was forced to chose the mods that had the more frequent update times in order to preserve his franchise...
As you can already tell, you can see which mods won out in that monetary war for FTB's soul. Honestly, it's Slowpoke's damn fault for selling FTB out to people who's interest are solely based around expanding their internet influence and dominating the modded Minecraft metagame. You can not expect to setup a start-up business without an adequate supply of capital in order to stick to your moral guns. Slowpoke over-extended FTB, and left him very fiscally vulnerable to external influences for modpacks. Thus, in order to preserve a steady stream of content in order to keep his business alive, he sold FTB soul to the mod dev's would could keep his business running...
At this point, FTB is the 'Call of Duty' of modded Minecraft: overpopulated with an immature user base that only keeps itself informed with the most limited scope of information in regards to the things that affects their gameplay. This keeps FTB funded, and the metagame players in power...