I am sorry to hear that; you have been unlucky indeed, as it is not like that usually. I would suggest you to submit the same patch to yt-dlp. My only PR for yo

I am sorry to hear that; you have been unlucky indeed, as it is not like that usually. I would suggest you to submit the same patch to yt-dlp. My only PR for youtube-dl has been waiting for ~2.5 year (#21837), so I proposed the same patch to yt-dlp, which has been quickly merged after a brief review (#1920). I found yt-dlp developers friendlier indeed, and I get notified if there is an issue or a PR that I could be interested in reviewing or contributing to. Sometimes developers are volunteers, have too much to do, and they can get frustrated. Having good procedures is critical, like testing/CI, pre-commit with blake8 and such instead of asking to read a very long list of rules, using GitHub merge queue, involve previous contributors automatically, share the burden with others as much as possible, etc.