Isn't there just too much breakage? Projects change all the time, their UIs change, sometimes they even pull the whole rug (e.g. Gnome 3.0).
With vibe coded tools you know what you got, and they're easy to adapt if you need to.
Well, my point is precisely that there’s an alternative to OSS that didn’t used to exist, and it’s pretty compelling, and it will probably keep getting better over time.
Why use OSS then? Because of the community—you will get ideas from using other people’s software that you wouldn’t get from staying in your bubble. OSS projects therefore ought to see themselves as a community first and a software project second. Do other people in the gnome community like the change? Why did the maintainers make it? You have less reason to use gnome than ever, but if you do use gnome 3, you’ll be trying out software that (a) somebody thought was a good idea, and (b) you definitely wouldn’t have vibe-coded for yourself. So that’s something.
Software still feels like this grand exploration to me—what's the best way to use a computer? What's the best way to express a program?—and a hackable text editor epitomizes that ethos (though I'm partial to neovim myself). Every time I install a plugin I feel like I'm participating in a clinical trial of UX design.
I think a lot of us feel this and the community will have to solidify the ethos that trying out other people's software is noble and healthy, exposing you to other peoples' ideas, even if it's actually harder than vibecoding.