> What I didn’t consider was that my interactions were taking time/attention/resources/patience from the project. User support is a cost. A lot of it - especia

> What I didn’t consider was that my interactions were taking time/attention/resources/patience from the project. User support is a cost. A lot of it - especially what OP mentioned - is an _investment_ in the project: Bug reports and feature requests are important input for developers, and often even save them more time than they take away. > Lastly you always have the option to fork the project. Mostly not. I mean, a fork for creating a merge request, sure, but maintaining a fork is either impossible or overly costly in the large majority of cases AFAICT.