It's much better from a self-esteem perspective to assume your project was a victim of its own incredible success than it is to have to confront the idea that y

It's much better from a self-esteem perspective to assume your project was a victim of its own incredible success than it is to have to confront the idea that your project was/is just plain written poorly. That way you can blame github for a lack of patch review instead of being forced to reconcile with the fact that parts of your project suck.