I think your comment is a bit unfair. All the problems you mentioned also exist outside of the FOSS world. People feel the same frustration, but they typically

I think your comment is a bit unfair. All the problems you mentioned also exist outside of the FOSS world. People feel the same frustration, but they typically won't say it because of some kind of hierarchy. Is that a good thing? I'm not sure. The other thing is that FOSS projects typically involve contributors from all around the world and cultural differences are always very sneaky, it looks like everybody is a hacker, but in fact most share completely different cultural codes. For example I've noticed that people from the US are used to cheer a lot, that definitely not the case everywhere. So for US contributors, I'm guessing working with people with a different mindset with respect to criticism can be quite a shock. So the beauty of FOSS is that it kinda works despite the extreme work conditions (distributed / remote / every body is allowed to say whatever / people work when and if they want / etc.)