It wasn't really sarcastic, but it was my intention to point out that, unlike closed source, if your complaint about open source software UI means that much to

It wasn't really sarcastic, but it was my intention to point out that, unlike closed source, if your complaint about open source software UI means that much to you, you do have the option of actually putting your time where your mouth is, and helping solve the problem that is bothering you. Your personal anecdotes are less about the software being open source and perhaps more about a lack of coordination with the existing developers. Every time I've contributed to an OSS project, I've opened a dialogue with the existing team ahead of time and had my ideas vetted before I put in a bunch of work. That or (now in the Github era) they were tiny/trivial patches where I wouldn't mind if my pull requests get ignored. With closed source software that has shitty UI (and there's lots of that too), you have to just live with it...