[jchw]

> turn away suggestions and PRs from people who need additional functionality, even if the changes would have no material impact on the author's usage.

Whether it impacts a specific use case is usually here nor there - it’s usually about maintainability. And while finding contributors for open source projects can be difficult, finding people who want to do the thankless work of maintaining code long-term is much harder.

[bityard]

I guess my point was that "opinionated" generally seems to imply maintainability at the (explicit and very intentional) expense of utility.