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 Ohh I did send that unfinished thought 😂 

I think it's a general "problem" with open source software that most devs just do what they find interesting, what is fun or exciting and new. People often do this work for free and their spare time because they have fun doing it.

Writing production ready software, optimizing UX, testing, fixing bugs and rolling out a solid product to a large audience is hard and tedious work. This is what developers usually don't like to do and what companies need to pay them for a substantial amount of money.

This is also something where the support of a product team can help with motivation working towards are shared goal.