[humanrebar]

> ...distracts from the actual work...

YMMV here. I've much more often encountered situations where I had to interview the maintainer of a repo (if there even was an official one) to find out how to contribute, whether they were even interested in contributions, and how to make sure my change didn't break anything.

A lot of these tools, processes, and special words are as much about good passive communication as anything else. That being said, tooling that doesn't fit development use cases is often worse than no tooling (presuming devs can make their own productivity scripts as needed).