This part seems unnecessarily entitled: > "...when I see developers’ time and effort spent on endlessly redesigning and rewriting core apps, I wonder: is that

This part seems unnecessarily entitled: > "...when I see developers’ time and effort spent on endlessly redesigning and rewriting core apps, I wonder: is that really necessary? How about working on these major issues instead? One of them dates back to 2006. I guess that fixing a 16 years old bug is not as exciting as rewriting the default image viewer in Rust6." I've helped with bugs that are old enough to drink and they're typically not fun -- I do it because I get paid. I can't tell whether the author's suggestion for the GNOME Foundation to fund a bug bounty is an offer to contribute to said bounty but even if the author is submitting patches or contributing money it would be worth keeping in mind that this work is typically done by volunteers who have the freedom to choose how to allocate their limited free time and energy. If the author has nothing to offer but complaints and still expects contributors to stop doing exciting things that interest them in order to fix old bugs then they come off as a choosing beggar. (It reminds me of when I used to volunteer with trail maintenance -- work would have gone a lot faster if all the people who complained about trail conditions actually showed up to help.)