[swiley]

A lot of commercial software focuses on building cool GUIs because selling the software is the whole point. The point of community maintained software is to solve some problem some people have and so that’s what gets focused on.

I don’t think tacking “cool stuff” onto free software is the answer, I would argue education is.

Much like how we educate kids on the dangers of false advertising we should educate them on the dangers of non-free software.

[kaolti]

I agree with you, but what I mean is people will be more inclined to use software that looks good - more broadly good UI/UX and I don't mean gimmicks. That's just how it is.