Well, Sammie, I would rephrase your question in another context.

Your variant: who did they bribe to get their extensions passed?

My variant: what did they bribe to get their extensions passed?

The answer to your question may remain without an answer. Otherwise, there can be so many answers, so that we can't be sure which ones of them are true, which are not.

My variant has the opposite situation. There is an answer to my question. This is Extension Requirements. But the most important see more fact that requirements are incorruptible. They are checked very properly. And believe me there is no way to cheat them.

We may consider them as Bible in the world of "How to write and make good mod for Dolphin". The requirements are the main tool to make mods which won't harm Dolphin, which will take care of future upgrades, will be properly structured and many more.

The reason that extensions from staff members are getting approved is that they are written in a proper way meeting all the points mentioned in requirements. The guys really know Dolphin in terms of programming.

We have examples that some mods from other Unity members do not meet the requirements in terms of file naming rules. This means that the owner did not take his time even to read the requirements. Note, I am not saying to meet them.

Yes, there are some issues with the time which takes approve process. This can be resolved in reasonable way by PMing to one of admins to mention about the mod and to speed up the process.

Sammie, your point is clear and has full right way to exist. But please consider my feedback reasonably in terms of that we pay attention to requirements firstly, not to whom it comes from.

Best regards,
VictorT.