[erklik]

I think your comment really does hit the point home. The developer working on a piece of software without any incentive to actually work on that software, doesn't and shouldn't care for the user.

To solve that, one needs to find a way to incentivise the developer so they are actually able to work on requests not just features they deem important.

[rizzin]

Some projects have adopted donation systems with different grades of success. However this really requires having a combination of factors to work out, such as people actually needing the product, developers not being toxic in communication, the project and developers actually being around for some time to gather a dedicated following.

Examples:

http://www.ardour.org/

https://godotengine.org/

https://rpcs3.net/