[Crinus]

FWIW i am not a FOSS zealot. If anything some of the software i find enjoyable to use is not FOSS (but sadly a lot of it is older software, largely because of user hostile modern trends - see Electron, phone-home DRM, adware, etc - but also because newer versions or alternatives simply have worse UX and/or bloated to almost unusability) and really my comments come more from a "you are entitled to what you pay for" stance.

[StaticRedux]

I certainly won't disagree with hostile modern software trends. I just think if FOSS maintainers are accepting the responsibility of maintaining the project, they should accept the responsibility of taking bug reports seriously. Everyone knows they are no fun. And everyone knows they aren't flashy. And the maintainers are more than welcome to ignore them. But in doing so, they can't complain about people not accepting consumer facing FOSS. It's a package deal.

[Crinus]

People are not a hive mind, some developers may ignore bugs, others may complain about end user oriented FOSS acceptance and perhaps some do both, but chances are these two groups are separate (and in larger projects you may even have people under more than one of these groups).

Also unless someone has explicitly expressed they are taking such a responsibility you describe, such a responsibility only exists in some people's minds. A lot of programmers want to share free stuff they made and stop there.