There's an impedance mismatch between what developers want (work on advanced features & clean code) and users want (have a product that fits their specific workflow then gets out of the way).
This is solved by users giving the developers money so the developer will do what the user wants. Sometimes a business sits in the middle to facilitate this transaction.
I've almost never seen FOSS figure out a good way of fixing this mismatch. The rare exceptions are when people derive intrinsic joy from getting marketshare against an evil corporation. Or Space Station 13, which let anyone add half-baked broken features and the interaction between it all was part of the fun.
This is solved by users giving the developers money so the developer will do what the user wants. Sometimes a business sits in the middle to facilitate this transaction.
I've almost never seen FOSS figure out a good way of fixing this mismatch. The rare exceptions are when people derive intrinsic joy from getting marketshare against an evil corporation. Or Space Station 13, which let anyone add half-baked broken features and the interaction between it all was part of the fun.