I'm just relaying my experience. I can't speak for many of us.
I'm confused about your message though. You recommend that we call him but then argue he is too busy to reply (and that is your excuse for no reply). Then you bring up what you call the 'reach around program', which is already overdue, and we are supposed to wait for that.
It's just excuses IMO.
By the way, one of the reasons for having TA and BA on board is to offload these kinds of mundane things so that he is not bothered by everyone. If the TA wasn't gagged we wouldn't be having this debate.