I've contributed to an open source project after wasting hours of my time diagnosing a bug, diving into the code, and making a fix. The project was in an area I

I've contributed to an open source project after wasting hours of my time diagnosing a bug, diving into the code, and making a fix. The project was in an area I was trying to get a job in, and the contribution would have given me rapport with the FOSS-supporting companies I was applying for. Instead of taking my fix, the maintainer spent a month making drastic changes to the architecture to address my problem and fix. There was a major version increase and people left using the old version of the code either had to deal with breaking changes to adopt the newest version with the fix, or use my fork. The whole thing was non-sensical and I came away thinking the maintainer was an absolute idiot. No one likes their hard work going to waste so I don't know how a rewrite under someone else's name could ever be justified. Wanting to get credit for your work is only natural and sometimes career changes are hinging on being able to build your resume in this way. Even from just a reputation aspect to get more sway when attempting to tackle more ambitious changes. When credit is robbed from someone for no good reason, it's just wrong imo. It's crazy this even has to be explained.