Another aspect of this: Rejecting such a change, or indefinitely leaving it hanging as open, is a much worse look than simply ignoring all the complaints (which

Another aspect of this: Rejecting such a change, or indefinitely leaving it hanging as open, is a much worse look than simply ignoring all the complaints (which is already bad enough but has more plausible deniability). Providing a ready-to-merge PR is effectively pushing them to take a public stance.