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how many levels of dissonance is that?
I do get the irony, but I also do get where he's coming from about users always asking for more.
And? I want more than my parents had. I want my kids to have more than me. How do you think that is going to happen?
Presumably by people like Marcan working to make it happen, rather than by random people complaining it's not already done.
A common fault is to believe only those who can do have the vision to see what should be done. Sometimes they're even right. You can hear complaints of shortcomings or you can hear suggestions for how to improve a product. And, especially in a volunteer role, you can choose if you want to do it or not.
Marcan pretty clearly isn't saying that feature requests wore him down. He's saying that people saying "what you've built so far isn't useful" wore him down.
(Plus, your original analogy about parents and children is completely lost by now.)
You think complainers cease to exist when the software becomes paid? You only need to look at gamers to find a very vocal bunch of angry people in that crowd. This is true for any enthusiast space.
Not sure if this was intended as a response to me?