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A single person run project can enforce UX requirements much better than an open source project.

"An open source project" can be anything, there are plenty out there which are solo endeavors that don't accept substantial contributions.

But I would agree that the classic model of big, slow-moving, design-by-committee open source projects have mostly yielded mediocre results.

I agree with this. GIMP is powerful and a fine piece of software but it truly needs an enlightened UX despot to come in and clean house.

This seems to be the achilles heal of open-source, the inability to provide even half-decent UX.