[stale2002]

> Are they clear?

Yes they are. The benefits are clear, because apparently a whole bunch of users got together a spent a bunch of effort building something that solve real problems that they themselves were having.

> everybody always simply gives the open source project the benefit of the doubt at being "better" when it probably just blows off a lot of functionality.

If people are using it, and spent a bunch of time and effort to solve their problems, then almost by definition, it is solving a problem that they were having.

So yes, we can just assume that it is better in some ways. If a bunch of people are using it, then almost by definition, it is providing value to some people.