It's interesting to see this perspective in the wild. In the age of AI I wonder what "massive value" your PR is bringing to the maintainer. $1 worth of tokens?
I mean, aren't you kind of proving the poster's point?
Fork away. If you want to put in the meaningful effort required to maintain and improve upon a project as significant as Godot, and feel that AI is a mechanism you want in order to do so, go for it. Clearly, the maintainers don't feel that that's the best approach to create the product they want to create, and they are not required to accede to the sense of entitlement of the community.
Even before AI it was trivial to setup a continuous merge script. I did that several years for several projects which refused my PR's.
Nowadays it's even more trivial.
And a community is more of a burden than an advantage nowadays. Users are ok, but a community not so. See python, perl, ruby, node and countless others.
I don't agree with you, but I think the interesting thing is that we'll both get to find out.
In two or so years time, we can find out if heavily AI produced projects become more maintainable, ship more features and dominate the open source landscape. Or if human written and maintained code has a long term advantage. (Or more likely somewhere in between)
Either way, whatever anyone claims, none of us know, but we'll find out son enough.