Interesting... I agree with most of your comments. A FAQ would be nice and a good Wiki can be a good tool for managing one. More moderators, and for that matter more resources of all kinds, would be nice (although they don't grow on trees).

I'm not so sure about adding new sections. Personally I read ETS via the "View recent messages" links, so the addition of new sections wouldn't affect me unless those links because section-specific. I am not sure if topic drift within a section even matters, provided everything is relevant to the site as a whole. I guess I don't see how more topics is part of the solution - I don't even see what problem they address.

I can see value in a commercial section, for traders, especially if it raises some revenue for ETS.