I've noticed that not all of the Steemit team's resources are dedicated to supporting SLC

Are you sure? I think a major chunk goes to these SLC posts. And apart from the reports, a few other posts here and there mainly come from authors whose assignments were nominated but missed the payout time, so they were possibly voted on a different post instead.

I’ll observe more closely, but I can tell you that this has caused a lot of demotivation.