This is a good point. The long tail of not that popular or active GitHub projects, would like to get more active or more users it's definitely not causing any p

This is a good point. The long tail of not that popular or active GitHub projects, would like to get more active or more users it's definitely not causing any problems for anybody. The creators are not overwhelmed by too many demands. And the requesters are absent. The whole issue of controlling your work the amount of work you have and making money out of that, really only applies to projects that get a certain level of attention, for the people in the situation where they want to make money out of it. If you're a student or otherwise don't need the money of course you don't have to care about that