[porcc]

The incentives here seem strongly skewed towards having your name on a new framework for career purposes rather than improving the ecosystem at large

[jstummbillig]

That seems wrong, intuitively. If anything, having meaningful contributions to a long standing project go through should relatively advance your cause, not hinder it.

[porcc]

Intuitively maybe. In practice definitely not. Creator of xxx with 100 stars has obvious and easily understood impact where "contributor" could mean anything