First: Yeah, tech is not the solution for anything! I agree that, practically, the most important issue for us is not tech but process and structure. I am very enthusiastic about the re-organizing work going on now.
Second: I'm mostly just scratching my itch of a) wanting to learn how to build Mastodon bots because I like Mastodon, and b) being interested in governance tooling. I am not under any illusions that it would likely be as awesome as Loomio.