I think we all understand this to some degree, but working on open source, outside of a few flashy projects, is some of the most thankless work there is. And co

I think we all understand this to some degree, but working on open source, outside of a few flashy projects, is some of the most thankless work there is. And contributing an immense amount of difficult work (such as perf and correctness improvements across the board) to a repo that you don't own and won't be recognized for is somehow significantly more thankless than that. For whatever reason, people only really care about the creator of a project, and virtually no one else. For instance, do you know who Junio Hamano is? Oh, he's just a guy who's been maintaining a fairly minor project called Git for the last 15 years. But everyone can connect Linus Torvalds with git, even though he only worked on it consistently for a year or two before leaving it [1]. Also, and I think we all know this too, but working on someone else's codebase kinda sucks. Greenfield is so much more fun. It's a shame, but I'm really not surprised in the slightest. [1]: https://github.com/git/git/graphs/contributors https://github.com/git/git/graphs/contributors