(Note: I speak only for myself and others who share my personal preferences) This comment really hit home for me. Making something good is often at odds with m

(Note: I speak only for myself and others who share my personal preferences) This comment really hit home for me. Making something good is often at odds with making something that's profitable/popular. I've often found that the most popular software is far more bloated/limited than the best software. This might be because people like me tend to favor smaller programs that are FOSS and work well with other FOSS; this view is held by a minority, and is thus a less profitable niche to cater to. One example is mpd+ncmpcpp versus Spotify or iTunes. The former is far more well-designed, performant, featureful, and flexible; however, it will never be popular/profitable because it's FOSS targeting end-users, it runs in the terminal, it lacks CPU-intensive pretty animations, and requires users to understand that it involves a client and a daemon. The list goes on; from IRC/Matrix versus Discord, to Linux/BSD vs macOS/Windows (an opinion that's a bit more controversial here on HN, but held by many nonetheless), the list goes on. I've defaulted to assuming that if a program intended to be used directly by end-users is mainstream and/or quite profitable, it's likely not for me. The few exceptions (e.g., massive web browsers like Firefox) exist only because there is no alternative I can get away with.