I think ... I like being allowed to help as much or as little as I wish.
I think ... I like being allowed to pick where I'll help, based on my judgment of what needs doing most.
I think ... I like the freedom to use my judgment to focus my efforts on the sites that are likely to matter most, ignoring the whiners who think their site should be listed because it's been waiting a long time, and the whiners who thing their site should be listed because it hasn't been waiting a long time, and all the other whiners who come up with other equally absurd and irrelevant criteria with no merit other than "it'll force everyone else into a queue which I can break into."
I think ... the backlog exists, it is a justification for continued work, but it is not a compulsion: and that is as it should be.
I think ... I'd expect someone to know something about the reality of a librarian's responsibility, before trusting them to manage a librarian.
I think ... according to Google, we all have three hundred years of work indexing the sum of human knowledge, and there's almost a five thousand year backlog. If each one of us works on what he thinks is most important, we'll have a good sampling of the most important aspects, and people who think something is being overlooked can ... focus on that. And what nobody thinks important enough to do can ... go undone until the important work is finished.
If you have a better idea then ... if you actually followed it, you'd be following our plan ... so you can't have a better idea that's actually feasible.
But come up with your best idea, and start working, and don't worry about the fact that you're cooperating with the ODP master plan. Or ... defy the ODP, and come up with a really dumb plan to follow. Your choice, and it'll have whatever power you give to it.