The authors took care to carefully express their intentions, wishes, and argument. I find it disappointing to see many comments like this that want to injure more than discuss.

A conversation about the expectations and burdens that people take on when volunteering their time to develop open source software is beneficial to everyone, and at the very least it is worth understanding their point of view. Maybe some solution results from speaking up. Maybe not, but at least they tried to engage with people before giving up.