[drzaiusapelord]

Frankly, these sound like excuses. The big problem I see with FOSS and UI is that there's a lot of politcal pushback. You can search for terms like "ribbon" on the web, forums, etc and see people lash out and using childish terms like "M$" and such. Its clear the maintainers don't want a UI overhaul.

There's a lot of 'grumpy old men syndrome' with FOSS. Usability, progressive UI thinking, etc in coder led projects takes a backseat to the whiz-bang hard technical stuff. And that's on top of the lack of motivation to change the UI. "If it aint broke, don't fix it" is a common UI dinosaur excuse.

Thankfully, we have google docs, o365, etc. I think the big office suite, outside of business, has killed itself. It just didn't move fast enough, is bloaty and slow, and couldn't keep up with web technologies. I don't know anyone who uses Libre anymore. They've either migrated to the web or have an old version of Office they prefer using. I'm not sure if a better UI would have helped with marketshare, but I can't imagine it hurting.

[buovjaga]

> Its clear the maintainers don't want a UI overhaul.

You are wrong. Please see my comments in this post.

[Sylos]

I have yet to see a maintainer of an open-source project who wasn't hopelessly excited when some UI-person took to their project and tried to do things with it.

Most programmers are aware that they are terrible at GUIs. Heck, a lot of these projects are specifically built without a GUI, so that someone else can create a GUI for it.

And if a maintainer is really opposed to it, then there's always the option to create a fork and see which version people prefer.