I feel you.
I heard from several maintainers about this phenomena, where at first all you want is your package is to be popular and have many users, but after a while you notice having more users is becoming a burden, with so many requests, issues, and opinions.
But I can see what you mean. We're still small enough, but I would assume if Openbase becomes a success we take on a lot of responsibility - in terms of making sure maintainers rewarded (not necessarily monetarily) and not punished for their good work.