I use Alacritty exclusively, and knowing that the maintainer is discerning makes me like it even more. I'm getting what I signed up for, which is a project which cares deeply about doing a few things very well. I think that an unstated implication of that ethos is that there will be plenty of things that you would like to do, but upon some amount of investigation don't see how to do well enough, so you don't do them and move on to devote your precious time and energy to other things related to your code, which remains an enjoyable place to work. That looks like the story of that ligatures PR.