It's definitely a signal, though I don't take to mean quite what you do... It's only 'likely that they sweated the other details' if you assume infinite manpow

It's definitely a signal, though I don't take to mean quite what you do... It's only 'likely that they sweated the other details' if you assume infinite manpower and resources. In reality, all of the very finite resources that went into picking the right shade of beige for the background could have instead gone into improving the actual tools. I don't think it's possible for an engineer to underestimate the importance of design and marketing for an engineering tool. Have you seen nginx.org?