The other distributing thing about the success of Linux is that people now think of open source as this magical wishing well where loud complaints turn into features and fixes.

Look at the board of the Linux foundation. There was a time where Microsoft was one of the largest contributors to the kernel.

Linux has the power of big tech, with an industry built around it and dependant on it. Linux, like the PC clone, slipped through a crack that the industry has been closing for the last 4 decades.

Linux has tons of paid development because it runs the Internet by and large. Your favorite open source project does not have the might of big tech behind it.

Bear this in mind before you go on a rant about how people aren't trying hard enough to make the software you want to see work.