I will add
there are exceptions in our community, and i will wave the
flag for Fons, Filipe, John, Robin, and Christian
Rui, Harry and many other developers care a lot about user feedback
too :). That's the good thing when using Linux audio. The chance to talk
to the developers of proprietary software is virtually zero.
in this regard, you may want to distinguish between a company of 50000
people like yamaha (steinberg), 3000 people like avid (protools) and
companies like bitwig or cockos (each having about 3 developers).
tim