I like when people whine on the internet, but do not do anything to improve. Go ahead and help them. It's an open source project in which everyone can participate.
As the article explains, Gnome developers are often hostile to even acknowledge a problem exists, even when offered patches, and instead just search for ways to deny that the use case could ever exist
Have you read the entire article? A large part of it is about bugs, features that are not acknowledged and contributions that are rejected on the spot.
Why would you spend time making someone else’s collapsing project better for free while they get paid while you could just work on your own vision
He literally submitted bug reports and patches that were rejected
Come on, we all know the GNOME project does not work that way.