Yea, I'm not really feeling all that sympathetic for pali here. A) calling the maintainers bastards is really not helping their case, B) the maintainers already

Yea, I'm not really feeling all that sympathetic for pali here. A) calling the maintainers bastards is really not helping their case, B) the maintainers already clarified they weren't planning on reworking the code to reduce the audio quality. If anything, I think this whole debacle illustrates the reality of big open source projects. It's largely thankless work a lot of the time.