What I find most concerning about this is the meta-dialogue. At first I was critical of the maintainers for closing this github issue as off topic.

Then I realized that the github ui was auto-collapsing a dozen messages in a row that were all completely devoid of any informational value and certainly sourced from forums and community discord channels.

This places everyone in a no-win situation. Someone who has identified critical issues that they believe the majority of a relevant community would be concerned about has good reason to signal-boost as much as they can.

It's a substantial request about very recent changes, and tone-policing it doesn't make it less true. The problem is that the additional attention literally kills the discussion. This also provides cover for people who may be making more emotive or ai-psychosis influenced decisions on the maintainer side.

Projects with a siege mentality which block and ignore criticism tend to go off the rails very quickly. On the other hand, maintainer burnout is inevitable for projects which can't shield maintainers from the anxieties and pathologies of people who seem to think that if they complain about AI enough, everyone else will stop trying to use and improve it it.