Moreover, whenever I’ve offered up a solution that scratches my itch, people complain that I should have focused on improving the current thing, but typically t

Moreover, whenever I’ve offered up a solution that scratches my itch, people complain that I should have focused on improving the current thing, but typically the maintainers of the current thing aren’t interested and have different priorities (probably very understandably!). When I can fix my problem by contributing upstream, I do so but it’s often prohibitively difficult.