[dkarl]

> marketing their software as production ready, easy-to-use, and working out of the box while it being the exact opposite

I stuck my nose into NativeScript years ago and turned right around because of the disconcertingly large gap between the slick experience promised by the project web site and the rough edges reported by people trying to use it.

Presenting your project as a polished solution when it still has a ton of rough edges is not a social norm, an emotional necessity, a human right, a signal of scrappy ambition, or "just what people do." It's a deception that can cause harm. Normally people are not within their rights to demand solutions from open-source projects, but it's fair to ask them to live up to their marketing. They could fix this by rewriting their marketing to better reflect the state of the project, so they attract the right users for the current level of maturity.

[natenthe]

Totally agree.