Although this argument (1) seems reasonable at first, I'm not really convinced, because although it does introduce expectations for what's to come, at the same

Although this argument (1) seems reasonable at first, I'm not really convinced, because although it does introduce expectations for what's to come, at the same time it removes the expectations for what's not to come. The bye-bye points are more for the lack of transparency rather than the actual decision not to support/merge this. They could have very well given a nice explanation saying something along these lines: - Thanks for the contribution - We don't have the resources to properly support arm64, it's not just a matter of accepting this PR but also ongoing budget allocation for supporting this platform on our products - Here is a link to a donations page, if we get X money we can allocate resources for this feature