Given one of the github guys commented that he had helped develop the first version of pull requests and considered all of his complaints valid and hated the co

Given one of the github guys commented that he had helped develop the first version of pull requests and considered all of his complaints valid and hated the code too. No, it wasn't petty. It was useful, constructive criticism that the github developers appreciated. It isn't just you, but I think you are being overly critical :)