To answer your question:
This forum is a legacy of an earlier time, when the business was more focused on independent travelers, teaching them skills, helping them connect to one another and to the places they wanted to go. Nowadays, the business is more focused on leading tours, so the forum structure reflects that to a great extent. Though there's still a nod towards independent travelers and meeting their needs (and the freedom to discuss places where the company has no tours), that's not what pays the bills.
The forum doesn't pay any bills, it's actually a cost, not a profit center. So investing more money in the forum is not a priority. (Yes, the business certainly gains some benefit from the forum, in terms of eyeballs and potential conversions to paying customers, but they have plenty of other ways to get attention.) You'll notice - no ads.
The forum software (it's a custom setup, not an off-the-shelf product) was written long ago, and is only updated occasionally in small ways (updating custom built software is not cheap or easy). The forum operates on a shoestring budget. So we all need to manage our expectations: this is not a huge multinational corporation with assets to burn, it's still (even after all its successes) a fairly small, local business.
There are LOTS of "anomalies" here (there are separate "country" listings for England, Scotland and Wales, but none for the UK; Estonia is listed, but next-door neighbors and fellow EU members Latvia and Lithuania are missing; Bulgaria is there but as you pointed out, Romania is AWOL...along with more than a few other European nations...where's Malta? Cyprus? The Balkans and all the post-Yugoslavia nations are not well represented. What one might define as "European Edge Cases" - Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia? Georgia?...they're "beyond the edge" and assumed to be lumped into "Beyond Europe" along with Yellowstone and Easter Island). Features that one takes for granted elsewhere are absent (there's no way to display a photo in your post, and no way to "ignore" or mute an annoying user - gawd, I'd give up a lot for that feature... I'm sure many would love to use it on me...). But the forum has been around for a long, long time and serves its core users surprisingly well, even with its lack of completeness and acknowledged limitations.
It is what it is. So stop expecting a high degree of consistency, keep your hopes in check, and appreciate that it's here, it's ad-free, most spam gets wiped by lunchtime the next business day Pacific time. It's not grossly over-moderated or ruled by bots (looking at you, TA...). And there's a large community of knowledgeable, friendly, and helpful users, longtime experienced travelers and enthusiastic noobs. Bottom line: it's not perfect (what is?) but it's still around and still kicking, lets hope it outlives the inevitable next business cycle cost-cutting and "efficiency" zealots, and continues to be a very useful resource long into the uncertain future.
