This seems to be what's wrong with the consumer culture when it comes to open source software. It is a sense of entitlement. If you want a feature, request it. The correct reply from the developer should be "thanks for the feedback, it's been noted, in the mean time you could add it yourself and send me a pull request". Done and done. It's not up to the developer to implement everyone's request. That has nothing to do with "end user software" if so far you are the only one requesting it. If there's no community demand for a feature, feel free to do it yourself. Don't blame the developer for not implementing your feature if 1) there's no community demand outside of yourself and 2) you have no plans to make it happen yourself.
What would be interesting is if issue trackers allowed users to pay actual money for features. Many times I find myself saying "I care strongly enough about ____ that I'm willing to pay ____ but it's not worth my time to read the codebase of ____ and fix it myself"
