The incentive is just if they want the project to survive and thrive and continue. They may not want this, or may value their pleasure of hacking on it higher t

The incentive is just if they want the project to survive and thrive and continue. They may not want this, or may value their pleasure of hacking on it higher than long-term liveness. I’m not making any normative judgments about _whether_ they want one set of preferences or the other, only commenting that it turns out (normatively) badly, from the perspective of the community around the project, if they don’t prioritize the overall liveness of the project (which comes at the cost of “doing as they please”).