[jmull]

That's not fair. The ask was this:

"Please try to minimise the steps required to reproduce it rather than producing large scripts with options that definitely won't work for me."

The guy doesn't have to do that, but then, he can hardly expect that people will want to donate their own time to help him with his problem.

Now, I get that he may not have known entirely how to proceed, but instead of asking how, he just says "no" and demands action.

That doesn't leave the dev anywhere to go -- without a way to reproduce the problem they really can't produce a fix.

So only then does the dev say "You're free to propose a patch yourself instead" which I think is pretty obviously rhetorical, meant to point out that there aren't any good alternatives if you don't want the dev's help.

It's all so strangely entitled -- the dev is asking for only the basic minimum of what's needed to actually fix the user's problem and now we've got people trying to shame them on HN.