That has always been a problem with Linux. I read somewhere a while ago where they said it's basically the wild wild west out there because everybody is doing their own thing. Like for instance I heard calf plugins were developed for the developers personal use and then put it out there and in fact I hear that about a lot of the plugins.
I can't tell a developer what to do but I can suggest something that hopefully I don't get executed for it. I think if you're going to put it out there for others to use that just made it public so at that point shouldn't these things be developed for the user in mind instead of this is how I do it and if you like it you'll like it if you don't you don't. To me that throws everybody back that using this platform to make serious music.
Ardour/Mixbus and Reaper are basically the big two. Yes there's a bitwig and a few others but the ones mentioned before seem to be what people use the most. I could be wrong but from reading all over it seems to be those.
Maybe plug in developers before starting a project, contact the developers of the DAWs and collaborate with them so these things work hand in hand.
Again I'm just suggesting but I know a lot of people are setting their ways. In fact when I'm asked by friends before they want to jump to Linux, I say to them if you are not familiar with Sheldon from Big Bang theory, I suggest you get familiar with him because a lot of developers that you deal with at least in my personal opinion reminds me of him.
Again I'm not criticizing I'm just trying to look for solutions for us all. I really think we need some more harmony in the audio world of Linux. Just some standards to follow to avoid these kind of things and as I saw in another forum, if the developer is going to stop developing maybe just inform people to stop using their product because if somebody doesn't pick it up or fork it, we're going to be screwed.
Again they are not obligated to do that because a lot of developers just create stuff for their needs but I think that's fine but if you going to make it public, then it's no longer for your needs because you're going to have somebody else using it and at that point you're taking on more responsibilities so I think it's only fair to say that if you're done, you're done so people can move on and like if it's for your needs maybe still follow the guidelines once something is there to follow.
Please, I am not offending anyone I am just putting out suggestions. I know every time I put something here I'm very apologetic and I think it's because of PTSD dealing with people on the arch forums. They may have changed but I don't know because I'm so afraid of asking questions there because in the past I used to get scolded, tuned up, verbally abused before I would get a suggestion and I would be told stuff like go read the manual or search at the forums as if I didn't do that already but when the forums get big like for instance here, you do your searching and you don't find your answer then you ask and I find people in this forum are so willing to help so I come here first.
Developers keep up the great work because we truly appreciate it and those are just suggestions to help everybody out I hope.