That may be the case, but my experience from submitting issues is that ofek is very receptive to other's perspectives and spends a lot of time engaging with oth

That may be the case, but my experience from submitting issues is that ofek is very receptive to other's perspectives and spends a lot of time engaging with other takes in issues on the Hatch repo and elsewhere. As an example I see he's in this thread replying to a cousin comment :). Sidebar: the benefit of one person early on in a project's development is that it's much easier to establish conceptual integrity in the Fred Brooks sense: "Conceptual integrity in turn dictates that the design must proceed from one mind, or from a very small number of agreeing resonant minds".