Viscerally understand the sentiment as someone who handles vague technical feedback here and there, but I've also seen this attitude kill off project enthusiasm

Viscerally understand the sentiment as someone who handles vague technical feedback here and there, but I've also seen this attitude kill off project enthusiasm almost completely, specifically with D&D/pathfinder character sheet manager PCGen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCGen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCGen In an era before github issues, the project got a lot of requests via the Yahoo groups mailing list that were often of suspect quality, but usually addressing a real flaw with the software. At some point near the end of the mailing group's life cycle, the most active maintainers really took a shift in the angry direction, and I think that led to a lot of people on Reddit, rpg.net, giantitp, etc no longer recommending it. This might not seem like a problem, but over a long enough long frame, low user interest for a formerly popular piece of software does seem to inevitably lead to a loss of maintainers.