Interesting. That's a radically different view on what a project should strive for than my own. My own FLOSS work focuses on getting work closer to the system's

Interesting. That's a radically different view on what a project should strive for than my own. My own FLOSS work focuses on getting work closer to the system's metal in order to have a responsive low-latency/realtime configuration (realtime being in the realtime signal processing sense). In this area in particular people doing the same things results in reasonable breadth of work, but insufficient depth. So plenty of options, but all of them not good enough to compete with larger development teams.