[btown]

I hope that one takeaway from this entire situation is that if you're a maintainer and your users are pushing you outside your levels of comfort, that's a reflection on them, not on you - and that it could be reflective of something far, far worse than just their impatience.

If you, as a maintainer, value stability of not only your software but also your own mental health, it is entirely something you can be proud of to resist calls for new features, scope increases, and rapid team additions.