I feel exactly the same way about Apache projects, and even now it's very rare to meet a fellow traveler.
Years ago I had the same emperor has no clothes realization that the ASF was an enormous BureaucraticBullshitFactoryFactory — that it was seemingly founded just to host enterprise middleware crap while trading on the name of httpd (without really developing it of course).
It took quite a while before I realized that the Apache Software Foundation was just the new IBM — and not just figuratively, if you actually looked at the active membership of the ASF, it was chock full of IBM employees contributing on company time.
Years ago I had the same emperor has no clothes realization that the ASF was an enormous BureaucraticBullshitFactoryFactory — that it was seemingly founded just to host enterprise middleware crap while trading on the name of httpd (without really developing it of course).
It took quite a while before I realized that the Apache Software Foundation was just the new IBM — and not just figuratively, if you actually looked at the active membership of the ASF, it was chock full of IBM employees contributing on company time.