This. I've had so many projects where I wish someone who really cared about UX could just tell me "this sucks, if you want I can help"
Many programmers think they can cheat their way into designing a good UI, they just think it's just enough for you to learn and use a GUI framework, and place the widgets in a "good enough" way.
Just look at the monstruosity that is the GUI version of wget, it's the epitome of programmers with no UX background trying to make a GUI application.
I suppose if someone thought this, they would not have dared saying it?
Many do make horrible UI, but would react poorly to criticism, hard to know before ..