I mean, I find it hard to not read "the Dem establishment is scared" as a positive. Even if I'm seeing outside my own hatred for the establishment, disestablishmentarianism is generally a winning position in the US (Trumpism could succinctly be described as "dumb disestablishmentarianism")
My personal answer is that people, particularly left-of-center folk from other Western countries, want us to feel like it's our fault. The way they talk about us.
I don't truly believe it, but that doesn't mean I don't internalize it.
As someone who's in a similar position...I like the technology and the idea of booting tech billionaires. I don't like how the userbase here is so monolithic, and this comment section makes me think people here like that this platform is a circlejerk.
LMMS is further behind it's proprietary competition than GIMP is (to the point where I think Audacity will be usable as a DAW before LMMS catches up) but I know DAWs are less mainstream than picture editing.
We still have ample time to get someone better than Gavin.