This is one of my primary objections to the cultural shift of the last 10 years towards trying to attract tons of random people, especially special interest gro

This is one of my primary objections to the cultural shift of the last 10 years towards trying to attract tons of random people, especially special interest groups, into open source software development. If they weren't naturally going to contribute anyway in the previous environment, the expected value of their contribution in the current environment is very low. Possibly negative after considering the drain on the maintainer(s).