Maybe that is what the developer intended, but afaik it is not what he communicated. What he communicated was a flat out dismissal of the issue along with the proposed fixes. Followed by deleting the whole issue from GitHub. To be fair, there were some very unpleasant things said in there, but he could have just deleted those and maybe locked the conversation telling people about his plans.

This whole thing was a feedback circle of increasing hostility between the community/contributors and this developer. At some points the developer was very unresponsive, leading to disappointment from the community, but then some very uncalled for personal attacks came from the community. I think the developer received some justified criticism, but I still understand his perspective, putting work in and getting abuse back sucks.