[thwarted]

Is just something I and the other contribs try to do with love, without pretending we are going to save the world. I wish this vision was a bit more common

So much open source is the result of, as is traditionally said, developers scratching their own itch. That's not to say that the developers don't start a project to "fix all the things wrong with the current options", but this is a more pragmatic view than the "this software is the final ultimate solution to problem X" that things eventually grow into having attached to them. I think a lot of proposing things as silver bullets grows out of the community as it gets more popular and is more the users proselytizing their flavor of the week rather than the core developers presenting it as something it's not.

The commercial side is, of course, a different beast, where salesmenship is required for any kind of longevity.