Many projects turned out to be far better than proprietary because open-source doesn't have to please shareholders.

What sucks is that such projects at some point become too big, and make so much noise forcing big techs to buy them and everybody gets fuck all.

All it requires to beat proprietary walled garden, is somebody with knowledge and a will to make things happen. Linus with git and Linux is the perfect example of it.

Fun fact, BitKeeper said fuck you to the Linux community in 2005, Linus created git within 10 days.

BitKeeper make their code opensource in 2016 but by them, nobody knew who they were lol

So give it time :)