[witcher]

Amazing write up! Something I would add as open source maintainer:

* Feedback is needed. After years I built up a filter to annoying users, and I would simply ignore their feedback, but +1 and mentioning the feature would be useful is invaluable (and why you cannot use workarounds). Please do that in a nice, productive way (:

* It might be that the feature you and others are asking for was in paid version of the project, thus maintainers actively ignored it. Not the healthiest thing to do, but this happens, business matters, especially if governance is poor (single vendor behind the project).

* I think it would be useful to mention that if it's just a work needed and not other blocker, anyone would be welcome to create PR for the needed feature or at least moving it forward 10%. Sometimes faster that motivating your rights in issues (: