Is not a sign of dark patterns if that is what you think.

There is a popular prejudgement (IMHO fact based) that artists are picky so FLOSS tools for artists often try to communicate secondarily that is FLOSS and where is being developed.

For "picky" I mean statements like "is not photoshop", "is not premiere" and if you go to Adobe sites there are no links to code repositories. This projects try to sell themselves similarilly. (hope I made myself clear)

kdenlive is cross platform, provides a windows build and is a very competent video editor. https://kdenlive.org/en/

I’m pretty happy with kdenlive, too.

It's the best one that I've found for Windows, despite the somewhat infrequent crashes.

Crashes will make your project fail. Don’t use it. After many years developers just aren’t able to deliver trustworthy and stable software. It destroys projects!

Hitting Ctrl+S every few minutes has basically become a compulsive behavior for me at this point, for any program (not just video editors).

Listen, buddy, if I followed this advice, I wouldn't be able to use any software. As a matter of fact, Kdenlive is actually one of the better behaved tools in my toolbox. Nothing's perfect, but at least there are almost always reasonable workarounds (like saving your work early and often).

No, they are all years behind. Resolve is free, save your time and use what is used by pros around the globe.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

You might want to try out the one build into Blender: https://www.blender.org/features/video-editing/

The github link for shotcut is just on the downloads page. I don't find that particularly egregious?

So is OpenShot. It's a weird thing to complain about.

I just used openshot for a project. It wasn't terrible, ran into one bug where I think it saved over my project without me hitting save but can't be sure. Clunky UI meant I accidentally overwrote some of what I was doing but it didn't take long to fix.