@fedor @noa I have been using suckless software for a long time myself. I even converted my own website to a bash-like interface years ago. As I said earlier, I still use irssi and mutt a lot, and I've been a strong adherent to this aesthetic for a long time (although I've always disagreed on the fact that "minimal" needs to mean "minimalistically ugly and with no JS/CSS": that's just nostalgia of the 1990s that doesn't lead anywhere).

I've been in these discussions for almost two decades, and, while I believe that everybody is free to use the tools they want, or customize tools to their liking, we're also responsible as a FOSS community of being accessible.

If the good-looking and accessible software is either paid or privacy-invasive, while the free stuff has a steep learning curve and it discards all the UI/UX design patterns matured over the past two decades, most of the people will still choose the good-looking thing - and it's a game where we all lose out.