My actual experience with reporting the "something broke" in a large, popular OSS project was 18+ months until resolution. A crafty engineer thought it was a go

My actual experience with reporting the "something broke" in a large, popular OSS project was 18+ months until resolution. A crafty engineer thought it was a good idea to run their in-house optimization on third-party JS libraries to squeeze a few extra bytes out of the final bundle size (going above + beyond conventional methods like minification). Turns out that the overly aggressive optimization caused runtime exceptions, and they ended up cleaning up the feature. I've never had a good long-term experience with tools that try to be or solve everything for me, and today I avoid them.