First off, I didn’t know the guy’s name is “Kovid”. It must have been a very weird five years for him.

Second, this is an amazing piece of text and I will show it to people to explain why having engineers make design decisions is often a terrible idea.

I genuinely believe there is a strong correlation between FOSS projects getting structured and well funded enough to hire designers and their chance of taking over as the default choice against commercial projects. If UX designers were as interested in volunteer work as engineers the software landscape would be completely different.