[borplk]

It seems like the average contributor to open source projects doesn't have enough interest and skill in the visual design aspect of things.

They tend to be the stereotypical hardcore old-school C developer who is not aesthetically oriented.

Everything from their website, their logo to the UI/UX has an aura of "designed by a C programmer who just wants to code and doesn't really give a shit about how fancy things look as long as it works".