Definitely, but I look at it from the direction of "No one has pulled in the good UX/UI people to do open source work" and that's simply a social/culture problem.
I also think it's completely fixable, because all the reasons to do open source programming work apply to UI/UX work. Getting your work in front of a lot of people, gaining experience and notoriety, getting to scratch your own itch.
There just was no Linux for design people to jump start that culture. And Mac's always had such nice design that they didn't have as many itches to scratch.
Good UX/UI people don't bother to pay for their tools, like in most professions, and prefer to work in software like Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, Maya, Poser, you name it instead of constrain themselves to "worse is better" just to feel good.
So in the end, most don't feel the need to join any FOSS community and rather build their portfolio on online design galleries and magazines.
> Good UX/UI people don't bother to pay for their tools, like in most professions, and prefer to work in software like Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, Maya, Poser...
Doesn't Adobe continue to charge big $$$ for Creative Cloud? I don't understand how these statements mesh..
I also think it's completely fixable, because all the reasons to do open source programming work apply to UI/UX work. Getting your work in front of a lot of people, gaining experience and notoriety, getting to scratch your own itch.
There just was no Linux for design people to jump start that culture. And Mac's always had such nice design that they didn't have as many itches to scratch.