Fresh Version of Linux Mint Offers Tweaks and Updates (Linux Planet)

In other words, the feature is going to live somewhere in the OSS "long tail" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Tail).
There's a place for such things. With a bit of luck, it may spawn interesting ideas that will permeate to more broadly used software.
Anyway, not all software is born to be used by everybody. Sure, it probably won't make its developers rich, but I doubt that was their main motivation.