The point would ordinarily be a good one, but I think you've misused it.
The Linux kernel community, by your logic, chose to interact with and be open to patches which were not properly vetted.
This framing seems secondary to a seemingly more important point, which is, nobody is fucking perfect.
In LKLM or in UMinn. The light now shines on UMinn, but to me, the feigned horror of LKML at UMinn's transgressions, and the lack of commensurate outrage at the many abusive, toxic and hostile transgressions of the LKML community, presupposes a terrifying "normalization" of abusive behavior within the LKLM community.
By sooch notion, it's safer to interact with the UMinn transgressors, than it is with LKML, who here fail to even once question their own guilt, introspect upon their own created violations of trust and ethics, but heartily condemn the egregious breaches of trust of others.
I'd rather hang with the contrite, or at least hangdog, scallywag, than the quicktongued accusers blind to their own abuses. I'd feel safer there anyhoow.