alt Hacker NewsI don't know what you think "typical Foss projects" are but in my experience they are exactly like your systemd example: one person that does what they want and share it with the world. The rest of your argument doesn't really make any sense with that in mind.
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Defletter • today at 4:50 AM
It depends on governance, for want of a better word: if a project has a benevolent dictator then that project will likely be more productive than one that requires consensus building.
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That's no longer as true as it once was. I get the feeling that quite a few people would consider "benevolent dictator for life" an outdated model for open source communities. For better or worse, there's a lot of push to transition popular projects towards being led by committee. Results are mixed (literally: I see both successes and failures), but that doesn't seem to have any effect on the trend.