"I would LOVE somebody to bounce AI off of reversing the architecture and bitstreams for the stupid-ass closed-source FPGAs."

The only reason I'm using Gowin is because it has a slightly more mature opensource tooling. Maybe we can apply this loop to nextpnr also

Please apply this loop to nextpnr for any of the commodity Xilinx, Altera, or Lattice parts. For example, everything about Lattice has been stuck for almost a decade at this point.