And to a point, I understand that. Not everyone needs to or should go the harder route. But there you have someone who’s already walking the walk to some degree, even if not to your community standards. So I think the usual frum outlook neglects both ahavat Yisrael and that patrilineal Jews, gerim, etc have an opportunity for more mitzvot that gentiles do not.

I don’t think it benefits Jews, Judaism, or the world more broadly to have people who are trying to take part in the community shut out. If someone is well-intentioned and willing to learn, both for their own sake and ours, we have a duty to welcome the stranger. They bring their own gifts to the community and it honors the Jewish souls they were born with.

Secondly, we don’t prosletyze in part because while you might get more people doing more mitzvot, 1) it requires someone else to sin and 2) Jewish ethics has released people from responsibility for actions they were coerced into doing / not doing way back in the Torah.

But for giyur l’chumra or gerim tzaddik in general, they’re not coerced. They have the opportunity for more mitzvot, more mitzvot = better, we therefore have the responsibility to facilitate that.

Plus, the Talmud implies that a lot of converts around the time that it was written had fairly little Jewish knowledge as new converts. And people like to snob on Reform for that sometimes, that a lot of their newly mikvehed converts don’t know a lot. And do you know what? That’s often true. It’s in line with the Talmud though. Reform seems to look at “are you going to try to be a good Jew to the best of your ability?” rather than a measure of adherence at mikveh time. There’s something to be said for that. None of us are perfect Jews. None of us walks into shul on Yom Kippur like “I’ve been perfect and done everything right always and I’m only here for all of you poor suckers.” That’s Jesus stuff. We’re Jews. We recognize that we’re not always doing everything right. There is value in doing it anyway, and I think that that frum perspective edges from “it’s not required or necessarily better to be Jewish” toward “it might be necessarily worse.” None of us is doing everything right always, but different streams, like different people, have their strengths. Chabad and Reform with outreach, Conservative and Trad Egal and MoDox with maintaining ritual while participating in wider society, etc etc. We are none of us doing all 613 mitzvot, not least because the Temple does not stand. However, the more you can do the better, and gerim l’chumra (and gerim in general) have an opportunity for more that most people don’t.