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I'm not sure why intentions would matter here, or how one would compare the value of different intentions. If someone adds value to the codebase and fixes, or helps to fix, a valid bug why should we care why they did it?

Sure intentions may indicate the liklihood of the person contributing more in the future, but that's a health metric for the project and unrelated from the contribution itself.

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>why should we care why they did it?

Because it's important to cultivate the right motivation among contributors. Allowing people with selfish motivations to thrive eventually destroys the project.

Assuming that you can control who thrives in a project seems like a death nail in and of itself. Contributions should stand on their own, why the person contributed them or who the person is should have no bearing on the FOSS project.

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