The key problem is that a PR can't do the job because of the CLA-related difficulties described in the original article - the submitter can make the issue for t

The key problem is that a PR can't do the job because of the CLA-related difficulties described in the original article - the submitter can make the issue for the trivial change but not make a PR so the expectation is that the actual trivial change would have to be done by someone who has already handled the CLA overhead.