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Do you simultaneously believe "it is a maintainer's prerogative to ignore any public feedback they receive":

If maintainers don't want to address issues, they only have to ignore them.

and that disallowing comments on a temporary basis, starting in the last few days, is gross negligence?

And do you also believe that the offensive part of this scenario is that their users, who may or may not be compensating them but statistically are not, temporarily don't have a public venue in which to chastise them for a problem that was already responsibly solved in a previously released update?