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1. Nothing, because the maintainers have the last say because it's their time and they don't owe anyone anything

2. "Aight I step up to maintain the feature"

I seriously don't understand the expectant attitude of some users. You get what you pay for.

That's fine, then don't ever ask me to use your product or pretend like it is a serious tool.

I find it funny how often FOSS advocates extoll the virtues of FOSS, only to turn around and silence complaint with statements like "what do you want for free?".

I don't see GNOME devs going around asking people to use it? And you can do what you want on a piece of software and still have it be a "serious tool". I don't see a contradiction.

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