[roenxi]

In defence of the maintainer. With this sort of project there is a real possibility that there is 1 person in the whole world who will keep the thing alive. If that person happens to have particular standards for what code looks like then good luck to them.

Perfect is the enemy - the active and vigorous enemy - of good when it comes to OSS maintenance.

[krageon]

If you alienate everyone who is excited to contribute, you make sure there is one person in the whole world keeping it alive :)

I don't think it's so rationally motivated. The conversation was so fundamentally illogical I must conclude it was purely emotional.

[phraseologist]

You're not "everyone", you're just someone who didn't read the contribution guidelines in the readme and still feels like complaining about it to this day.