You wrote OS GUI can't take that from you. Who paid for that OS GUI? How often did the requirements change? How many stakeholders your OS GUI has? Is it done p

You wrote OS GUI can't take that from you. Who paid for that OS GUI? How often did the requirements change? How many stakeholders your OS GUI has? Is it done project or is it "constantly evolving"? If it is constantly evolving how many developers are working on it? What is team turnover or is it only you working on it? It is easy to throw "gross negligence" when you work on some pet project where you don't have to change direction every week. You don't have 10 customers wanting things which are mutually exclusive.