Well said Mule. I think it's important to let the unnofficial factions have a voice. Especially when they are asking if it's feasible for them to even make a go of being a faction at all.
As for the hiatus in faction approvals, consider your own lives, and then consider what might be amking the Admins, who take their responsiblities very seriously indeed, be so quiet recently. Everything that is essential to Disco is working fine. The server is quite stable, Rule breakers are getting punished. Everyhting else is a secondary concern imo. That includes Faction approvals.
Saint Del is considered a holy healer of diseases of children, but also as a protector of cattle.