This is how most open source projects do things, 1. because they are not users, and 2. they don't have UX teams and upper management to force them to make it easier to use for people.
Be lucky you get binaries at all, there are many projects that don't provide any at all, and are quite hostile to anyone asking for them!
On another hand, no upper management to push ads and dark patterns. The more old school or even ugly a project looks like, the more I end up trusting it.
Be lucky you get binaries at all, there are many projects that don't provide any at all, and are quite hostile to anyone asking for them!