Listen, I'm all for a new orchestral library/soundfont (it's no easy task making one), but the screenshots they're sharing do not make me hopeful for the future of the software. I think Muse Group has good intentions, but much like the GNOME foundation and Canonical, I feel like they're falling into the trap of being compared to commercial software. I think Tantacrul's critiques of the modern composition stack are fair and warranted; I'm definitely glad that people with strong opinions are stepping forward to fix things. But these menus just evoke a feeling of being trapped in Adobe Purgatory. Their logistics choices are starting to lean on the harmful side, too: peer-to-peer downloads by default, intrusive telemetry packaged in from the start, ridiculing forks, not licensing the download hub as open source... it doesn't make me excited for what's coming next. This new development/design philosophy only encourages me to stick with older versions of software.
The silver lining to this cloud is that it's still OSS, which gives us a fair bit of leeway for changing the things we dislike. I'm just frustrated that this trend of kneecapping software experiences to make them comparable to commercial solutions has started to infect open-source.