Open source is such a wild west at times.

You have your gatekeepers like Linus Torvalds who will call you a fucking moron if you submit something that looks remotely off.

You have your committees that you can submit a MR, but it has to go through the council of experts before it gets merged.

But the vast majority, it's a one or two person project and this was a side project because you had an issue you wanted solved. No financial reward, no acknowledgement. And so when someone gives it a iota of attention, you fall head over heels and hope they are like-minded and want to support this dream too.