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I'm sure they would have welcomed patches.

What does that have to do with anything?

Uh, that OP could attempt to fix something they complained about, rather than beat the proverbial dead horse about it?

I.e. if you can’t sing, then you can’t point out that the singer is out of tune, therefore they aren’t out of tune, and everything’s fine?

Submitting a request which says “can you clarify if this filesystem behaviour is expected?” then bringing it up two years later saying “this has been unstable for a while” does not seem like “complaining” or “beating a dead horse”.

What makes you so sure?

Users complaining that things are broken < Users complaining that things are broken and then submitting a patch (or at least some attempt to unbreak things)

It's exceedingly rare that a maintainer of anything would scoff at all patches from users to help fix things.

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