On the contrary. It leads to new ideas. Open source has brought us substantial innovations over the years. On the distro side NixOS for example. Tiling window

On the contrary. It leads to new ideas. Open source has brought us substantial innovations over the years. On the distro side NixOS for example. Tiling window managers like i3 are another. If all development time is spent on something coordinated by a committee, we wouldn't see such pearls emerge. They'd consider it way too risky or too different from what they already have. And really all companies already use that centrally directed model. FOSS is a good counterbalance for this. That not all the work is receiving the attention it deserves doesn't really matter. And some ideas just don't work out but at least they were tried. IMO it's all good if it makes the developers and the people that do use it happy.