I'm pretty sure most software people do understand that the work leading up to the fix was the most valuable part. I feel like what some people don't understan

I'm pretty sure most software people do understand that the work leading up to the fix was the most valuable part. I feel like what some people don't understand is that there are contributions like this all the time, and it is often better to take the submitted code as a proof-of-concept than bring a newcomer up to speed on the maintainers' coding standards.