I have also experienced this frustration and it has turned me away from projects before. There is always some reason to block a PR. However, I found that creati

I have also experienced this frustration and it has turned me away from projects before. There is always some reason to block a PR. However, I found that creating my own open source projects helped me sympathise with maintainers of popular projects. I think of it this way: Say you work at a company and there is a lot of work to do. The bar can be low for accepting PRs because it is assumed that the author will stick around to fix any issues they caused and you have to deliver so in it goes. However, a maintainer of an OS project first of all probably does not have the same problem you are trying to solve AND they may not trust that you will stick around to fix any problems your code may cause in the future. On the other hand they want you to contribute because this makes the project more popular and there is a chance that you will become a maintainer yourself. It's a balancing act. This is why it is important for a channel of communication to be opened between all those interested in the project (a chat group) to grow rapport.