@Zerglingman
Here's my reasoning: if you want to improve something, it's because you already find value in it & want to use it. But the open-source community overall hardly seems fond of Windows, and they already think they have and use a much better OS (be it Linux, BSD etc).
I find the effort behind ReactOS a bit counter intuitive. I doubt the devs are making it for their own use, so then maybe they're making it to convert people away from vanilla Windows. But if that's the end goal, why not just make Linux/BSD an easier destination for ex-Windows users?
The only way I can reconcile this for me, is if ReactOS devs actually do like Windows & the way Windows does things, quite a lot, but they want a Windows that is not tied to Microsoft. In which case, they must be a very rare jewel in the open source community.