I just use:

Remember when emails weren’t just all “@gmail.com”?? Fediverse is like that but for reddit/twitter/instagram

Sounds to me like you want an iPhone… There’s nothing wrong with that as long as you know what you’re getting into which it sounds like you do…

A project like GOS will never have that level of polish and it seems like that’s what you’re looking for…

Working with engineers that were better than I was and actually listening when they reviewed my code… Asking why and going from there.