Maybe I'm biased by not having a widely used open source project, and my judgement is thus clouded by wanting to one day have a community of users for something

Maybe I'm biased by not having a widely used open source project, and my judgement is thus clouded by wanting to one day have a community of users for something that I've written. That said, I do write code and have tools that are used by other groups of people, and have experienced feature requests and suggestions and patches that I don't necessarily agree with, and I've always tried to step back and consider the overall impact on the project rather than my personal preconception of what the project "should" be. I've merged features that I'd never use and adjusted things to make my project more friendly for users who aren't me. I think that one of the greater things about open source projects is that over time the original author can focus more on the fun parts or on guiding the overall direction of the project, because the community can provide assistance with identifying issues and maintaining existing systems. Whether the version number is 2.0.0 or 1.7.0 or 50.0.0 is such a trivial thing, and as a developer I'd imagine I'd make my choice based on what made my project more usable for the community.