I am very sympathetic to your comment. The old OpenWRT and new LEDE did a really poor job of end-user interaction. There wasn't a list of recomended models which was kept updated. The regular documentation was often out of date. The forum was poorly administrated. Project goals were unknown. Lots of back-room dealing with little transparency of what project direction should be.

Hopefully LEDE will change this, but I'm not very optimistic. It's the same devs as before, and they didn't like dealing with end-users before, so why start now? It took LEDE over six months to set up and end-user forum, and they decided not to make a lede-user mailing list at all. Not very end-user friendly actions I'd say.

Note that I don't interact with DD-WRT, so that's why I don't make comments about DD-WRT.