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Did you try hitting the edit button and submitting a PR? If only to spark the discussion with the maintainers.

Causing more politics. It's a catch-22. Once politics are brought up, it's hard to get rid of without causing more politics.

I don’t want my github history to show any hint of politics.

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kay.

Why the web sucks in a nutshell.

Yes, politics are necessary.

Potentially upsetting 50% of people seems like a silly move.

It could be that they simply don't care for that 50%, in which case, no skin off their backs.

Well if they are trying to grow a platform then it is skin off their backs. They don't have cooties.