I invested the time in submitting a detailed bug report as a litmus test to determine if it was worth spending more of my time installing the source code, learning how it works, and trying to fix the problem myself.

Because I'm a user interface programmer who could actually do that work, I also have a lot of other pressing things to do with my time, and wouldn't want to waste it if there was no chance of the developers accepting my changes or even acknowledging that there was a problem.

If they brush off my bug report, I thought, then they probably won't accept my changes.

But that's exactly what they did, which proved to me it wasn't worth my time.

The developers also ignored and argued against many other valid bug reports and complaints on the discussion board. Their attitude came through quite clearly and consistently, and my experience wasn't unusual.

If you disagree that it's not worth the time, then by all means you should get started downloading the source code, reading it to understand how it works, submitting bug reports on any problems you find, getting up to speed so you're qualified to make changes in the proper way that the developers will accept, fix the bug I described, test it on all platforms, and submit a pull request.