I wonder if the issue is mostly the code or the AI written PRs and people using AI to talk to the maintainers. I personally just ban anyone doing the latter, I don't want to talk to opus more than I already do lol
Issue is entrenchment in the old SWE world that ceased to exist somewhere in August this year, and using AI to mechanize the traditional workflows. Also people with "I need to eyeball each char in PR diff" attitude, which is fucking unproductive at this point.
Some projects exist just for our enjoyment of coding, so yeah I read the code on those.