i think my expectations on how maintainers for open source software act may have been poisoned by seeing folks like BDFLs act unreasonably to reasonable requests
there was something i was looking into for work (a plugin for an open source app we use got quietly disabled due to running for too long once) and i saw a bug report for it, and i was halfway expecting the maintainers in it to say something like "the plugin shouldn't run that long, you're doing something wrong, closed"... but no, they actually took it as a problem and fixed it.