[cryptonector]

Building and maintaining a community is hard work. Even just talking to all comers is hard work. You need a team for that, but if you're a team of one then the community is likely going to suffer. You could find external contributors to promote to committers, but that's work too, and maybe LSP's maintainer doesn't want that (or maybe LSP's maintainer's employer (MSFT) doesn't want that). Apart from what MSFT wants, the rest is just as likely to happen for small enough projects whether they be GNU projects or not.