For better or for worse, this is nothing new. It is a symptom of the fact that the FSF and other FOSS organizations have displayed a fantastic failure of technical leadership for over 3 decades. The political leadership has not been bad, but if you go back and dig through the history of open source you will see that there have been multiple repeated failures by the supposed thought leaders to provide the equivalent level of technical excellence that is required to compete.
Making the lives of developers of free software easier has rarely if ever been on the list of priorities for many of the core projects.
Making the lives of developers of free software easier has rarely if ever been on the list of priorities for many of the core projects.