Well, it's probably a good thing, as otherwise the project would end up with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_committee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desig

Well, it's probably a good thing, as otherwise the project would end up with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_committee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_committee For actual reasons why, I think the biggest reason is that designers don't have any actual power in open source software. They can _ask_ people to implement their changes, but can never do it themselves. And the people they ask care more about solving problems than appealing to the masses.