You can submit patches upstream all day long, but you can't browbeat the maintainer into applying them if they don't really care about it. It's their project at

You can submit patches upstream all day long, but you can't browbeat the maintainer into applying them if they don't really care about it. It's their project at the end of the day. Likewise, it's just as annoying when you submit a PR on some random thing because you see a legitimate bug or unhandled case and the maintainer starts demanding you do more free work for them to do 100% they way they would have done it. Just say "thank you", accept it, and make those superficial edits. The price point here is free. This is essentially a gift economy. Just because some random strangers on the internet have an interest in the same few bits of code, doesn't mean there is an obligation to do free work or twist someone's arm.