That's not true. Where is the evidence? Comparing work made for a client to something that is an obvious labour of love is apples to oranges. When UX sucks it

That's not true. Where is the evidence? Comparing work made for a client to something that is an obvious labour of love is apples to oranges. When UX sucks its because (a) the client demanded so many incompatible changes that the dev loses interest in the project and (b) design-by-committee There are many many examples where single-developers create projects with great UX . They don't suck , in general