The issue with many open-source projects is that most maintainers are of the philosophy of "let's ship it, we can improve it later" for their own code, while th

The issue with many open-source projects is that most maintainers are of the philosophy of "let's ship it, we can improve it later" for their own code, while they expect incoming PRs to be perfect, to handle all corner cases, past and future, or else they'll be stuck in limbo, unanswered or picked apart over months, one line at a time, until they ask for a perfect implementation which requires 10x the time investment. All for fixing a bug that might affect people. I admit I personally have never participated much in open-source development because, even as an experienced software engineer; I've never had many good experiences with merging code into public repositories, unless it's a very small project, where contributions are very welcome, because the level of perfectionism maintainers require from first time contributors kills any enthusiasm one might have even in the smallest of changes.