[jeroenhd]

> But regardless, no one is required to stick to a particular way of creating open source software, so the one benefit here is that you are free to fork the library (assuming its license allows for that) to remove some backwards compatibility that isn't relevant to you.

I think that's the most important takeaway here. The library author decided not to make breaking changes and to keep compatibility wherever he can. I don't think that's a requirement many people have (not to this level, anyway), but it's not unreasonable either.

No project is required to use or accept his code. People want qs, resolve, and nvm.sh, and this one person is willing to provide it to everyone for free.

I don't care if he refuses suggestions because of "breaking changes" or because "they don't spark joy". It's his project, you can disagree with him all you want, but you can't complain that the free work he's doing isn't to your liking.

I think it's telling that a lot of people are willing to argue with the maintainer but very few people are willing to step up to provide and maintain a better fork.