These problems you describe aren't present for the people being asked to solve the problem, so they don't volunteer their time to fix it. In my experience they

These problems you describe aren't present for the people being asked to solve the problem, so they don't volunteer their time to fix it. In my experience they aren't even problems for beginner computer users or people who don't need to unlearn Windows/Mac-isms post Ubuntu and modern hardware detection. edit: I should add, I'm not saying a project solving these problems wouldn't be popular among users or generally great for Gnu/Linux as a whole, I'm explaining why it's not popular among potential developers. And when you aren't working in a market capitalism framework a large number of potential non-contributing users isn't enough to get things done.