Usually everybody is advised to avoid any Monero vs Whatever trollfests at all cost. But can' resist, so here's some rambling:

Closed source is of limits, period. No need to discuss this any further.

Spagni's Face is known and looking acceptable. Almost. Well, not totally bad. A diet, a shaving, more sports perhaps. That seems sufficient to me. You can't force all participants to lower their pants. Some cherish privacy.
(years forward you could do that shocking group picture)

The GUI is kept kinda as Monero's joker. It's a complete joke allready. Nobody needed one anyways, and the dozen people that realy needed a GUI have created a dozen unofficial GUIs allready. Even some obscure stuff done in AutoIT, god heavens! I once dabbled with AutoIT because of automising work tasks on desktop, and the original developper downloads have been infested with malware infections according to my scanner. Would only utilize for occupational nuclear power plants maintenance tasks, but keeping that stuff away from anything private crypto related.