I'm not a big fan of Kicad but the main reason I used it was so that anyone could edit and work with the files without having to buy a license of any sort. So I'm not really looking for a commercial version of Eagle. You have to remember that where I live I could have easily picked up Altium or Eagle for only a few $. Using Kicad was more a philosophical issue. Despite the troubles I had on the way I'm actually kind of impressed that it actually does work. I would change a bunch of things if I had the time and energy to contribute or fork the project - but I don't for now.
If there are specific Kicad bugs that slow you down, perhaps donations could go to bounties to those who get patches accepted that fix those bugs? That is after all one of the nice things about open source projects.
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link to launchpad bug list