It's interesting how bloated those open-source editors are. There are a ton of useless options. Instead of focusing to implement needed tools like AI masking or lens correction, we have bunch of de-mosaic non function methods or multiple sharpening tools that are non practical to use in classical workflow. Even defaults render broken RAW files!
It's like many volunteer programmers doing software without ever actually using RAW development professionally.
That's because the incentives don't align between developers and users on OSS projects when they aren't catering to developers. There is no product management as a go-between that is tasked with understanding the user base and edits feature requests and developer contributions into a coherent package.
Both is wasting of potential and energy. Projects became abandoned soon or later because it miss supply on demand. Which is beneficial for proprietary software development. Which sucks a lot and ignore purpose of open source development.
People come to volunteer with the interests and skills they have. It’s easier to let problems that are hard or not interesting fall to the wayside, and for the maintainers to take what they can get (especially if they think that happy contributors will contribute more).
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It's interesting how bloated those open-source editors are. There are a ton of useless options. Instead of focusing to implement needed tools like AI masking or lens correction, we have bunch of de-mosaic non function methods or multiple sharpening tools that are non practical to use in classical workflow. Even defaults render broken RAW files!
It's like many volunteer programmers doing software without ever actually using RAW development professionally.