Is that actually an "issue"? Most of the time when I talk to FOSS developers and say things like "if you do X, you will get a lot more users", their response i

Is that actually an "issue"? Most of the time when I talk to FOSS developers and say things like "if you do X, you will get a lot more users", their response is usually "popularity is not a project goal." I feel like there's probably a reason that it should be, due to some unintentional positive side-effects, but I'm not clever enough to come up with any convincing reasons to tell them they're "wrong."