It's not like the competitors are any better, in the desktop space at least. The problem in my eyes is plateauing. Once a project moves past the first couple o

It's not like the competitors are any better, in the desktop space at least. The problem in my eyes is plateauing. Once a project moves past the first couple of iterations, it rarely interests the original authors enough to make incremental improvements. And since there is no financial incentive to continue, the project usually cools down to eventually be replaced by the following iteration. This means that you rarely get mature software.