I can speak for how this worked before I stepped down.
There was (And afaik, is) a lot of collaboration between the eMule and aMule project. In the past, I was acting as a bridge between both, and I am familiar with both codebases. Chances are now someone will be the one in contact if needed.
I know 0.49a beta was released, and I know the changes it had. I am also sure someone will implement them in aMule. But the team has never and will probably never take people telling them when and how to do things in a good way. Things are being done, things will be done, and that's prety much about it. Your "if I were you" sentence is condescending, and you should realize that, indeed, you are not them. Noone has ever said anything about being independent from eMule, and the opinion about eMule's mods is clear from a lot of posts here. There's a reason their features are not in eMule - and the team tends to agree with those reasons.