Why should he? Maybe he does not want to deal with reviewing shitty PRs and comment noise and feature requests? (As far as I know you still cannot disable PRs)

Why should he? Maybe he does not want to deal with reviewing shitty PRs and comment noise and feature requests? (As far as I know you still cannot disable PRs). This is already a large and no doubt time consuming project as it is, and not everybody likes to be a "community manager" more than they like to code.