[gregw2]

Regarding:

> Does this project waste certain efforts of maintainers?

> Unfortunately, yes. We would like to sincerely apologize to the maintainers involved in the corresponding patch review process; this work indeed wasted their precious time. We had carefully considered this issue, but could not figure out a better solution in this study.

Have they ever heard about carbon offsets? How about finding/performing work that offsets the abuse of time of the maintainers involved? (Hint: it's not too late to do this to show you really are sorry. You won't be trusted at first but it's the right thing to do.)