I wouldn’t go so far as to say that the whole application no longer makes sense, but the marketplace is effectively completely broken, that’s true 
It would be desirable if this problem were given high priority!
I know that the work is still done voluntarily in people’s spare time, but this way openHAB will only lose users again…
Why am I writing this? Because I am a committed openHAB user and only see advantages over HA, and I also have the following thread in mind: https://community.openhab.org/t/openhab-marketing-is-lacking