My main problem is that despite the "polished" feel neither elementary nor it's apps are as good as their marketing. Geany beats Scratch with closed eyes, Quod Libet or Banshee can actually handle large music collections without crashing, and the terminal should work as a terminal and not as MS Word ( I'm looking at ctrl+c ).

True, few in the Linux and BSD community are willing to put in the time to make things as polished as they could be.

However, you can always install your editor of choice. Geany is in the apt repos.