[andrew_]

> It's a free and opensource project. Feel free to open a PR or bug report.

This isn't and never has been protection from constructive criticism. Nor should it be. Choose to ignore it, or dismiss it, sure. But belittling valid criticism is a bad look.

[throwawaylinux]

Complaining about UIs on forums that the people responsible for the issue will likely never see is not and never has been constructive criticism.

It's a gripe, or a whinge, which is fine and open source shouldn't be immune to it. Although I will say that open source projects in my experience tend to be much more responsive to bug reports and actual constructive criticism from people paying them $0.00 than proprietary software projects are.