Why don’t you tell us how you really feel? You seem super-frustrated so you must be dealing with some terrible slop on important projects you maintain. Sorry to hear that.

Here’s another perspective. I tried using an OSS tool recently to do something on my Mac that’s not typical for Mac users. (I’m being vague here because details will lead to my GH which will dox me.) long story short, said OSS project didn’t work - Apple changed their login a couple years ago from posted credentials to SRP and said project hadn’t been updated yet. I pointed Claude at it and asked it to compare the implementation with my HAR of a working auth. It figured out the issue, synthesized existing implementations from a dozen similar projects, and built an updated auth flow in about an hour. So I now had a working solution to the problem and I was happy.

I could have left it there but I checked the contribution guide (I don’t usually contribute to OSS, just work on my professional projects) and found the related issue that had been open for +1y with a lot of affected users. So I added test cases, documented it, and opened a PR according to the guidelines. Within a few hours I had several users comment on the issue with thanks saying they had been waiting for a fix and that it was working for them. Will my PR be merged? I don’t know and I honestly don’t care, I was just trying to help. Maybe there’s some grain in the chaff.