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by lowercased 1567 days ago
it can be, yes. there's chicken and egg issue of trying to help other people be more proficient in making those mods, learning about larger parts of the system, etc.

there's also the issue of being told "no, that's not a bug" or "no, WONTFIX", then... hours or days later... producing the same code patch as your own. Definitely a jerk move.