[neatze]

I read everything I could find, in short, researchers did not give any options for maintainers not to participate in research.

The best analogy I could come with so far is; someone offered you compelling job offer, and when you where ready to sign up they would be yeah, that was research project, sorry - would you be ok with such behavior ?

This not ok, because you did not consent to waste your time on someone else's research project.

[cthaeh]

They addressed this in the paper by making the change small (5 lines). Obvsiously time is still wasted, but the team felt that the research warranted it. This is up to debate and should not be used solely as a reason to crucify them.