There have been a couple times in the past where I’ve run into an issue marked as WONT FIX and then resolved it on my end (because it was luckily an open source

There have been a couple times in the past where I’ve run into an issue marked as WONT FIX and then resolved it on my end (because it was luckily an open source project). If the ticket were still open, it would have been trivial to put up a fix, but instead it was a lot more annoying (and in one of the cases, I just didn’t bother). Sure, maybe the issue is so low priority that it wouldn’t even be worth reviewing a fix, and this doesn’t apply for closed source projects, but otherwise you’re just losing out on other people doing free fixes for you.