We could but IIRC it was decided against .
Could be reevaluated. The main issue was it was harder for non technical people to get changes in.
Something I'd want to is to be able to translate it
Couldn't find it
Gitea is down again but basically you need to use the game's archivebuilder to compress and optimize your assets. If you don't it has to be done at runtime for all your users and they might have bugs you don't have or they might not be able to use your mod at all. DAE turn to PMD/PSA XML turn to XMB and PNGs TGA turn to DDS.