We don't send responses to submittals, so what you got is what you should expect. There is nobody to impress an editor and force him to review the site within xxx days (or months) from the time of submittal (not that that would be a constructive thing to do anyway), so you can't expect something to happen at any set time just because of a submittal.
"Good" and "useful" are not criteria. "Unique content" is the criteria: and between two sites offering the same content, we'd naturally want to pick the more authoritative one if possible.
So the reviewing editor will be asking something like, what information does this site contain that no other site does, or what information does this site present authoritatively that other sites can only produce secondhand? In the simplest terms, "who are you and what do you know?" (the latter question may vary: common variants are: what happened to you, what have you done now, or what would you do for money?
It's not fair, it's not ethical, for the editor to impose his own notion of what is "good" website design, or even what's a "useful" website. We just tell people what's on the internet; they may be able to imagine all sorts of uses for the most obscure information.
