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this is the same as GIMP and Audacity and many other FOSS projects: a proliferation of menus and niche features and zero overarching design and ideas

• gmueckl 2y ago
  That's because the incentives don't align between developers and users on OSS projects when they aren't catering to developers. There is no product management as a go-between that is tasked with understanding the user base and edits feature requests and developer contributions into a coherent package.
  • imtringued 2y ago
    Basically this. The "scratching your own itch" approach to open source development doesn't work if your users aren't software developers. Or the inverse. If your open source developers aren't photographers.
    • t0bia_s 2y ago
      Both is wasting of potential and energy. Projects became abandoned soon or later because it miss supply on demand. Which is beneficial for proprietary software development. Which sucks a lot and ignore purpose of open source development.