Exactly. Pull requests are not a golden ticket here - they still take (a lot of) time to review and maintain. In my experience pull requests, particularly for

Exactly. Pull requests are not a golden ticket here - they still take (a lot of) time to review and maintain. In my experience pull requests, particularly for (larger) features, can be net negative contributions. If the pull request is done poorly they can easily take more time to review, fix and maintain than it would have taken the maintainer to implement the feature in the first place.