Is this kind of burnout perhaps in part due to the level of mechanization provided by the defacto platform for open source projects now: GitHub?

It seems like it’s more frequent, but maybe that’s just me.

It’s great that GitHub exists and lowers the barrier for anyone to develop and share open source efforts. But you also become a slave to its various very well automated processes. As a creative altruistic agent, that can actually take a lot of the fun out of it. And make one feel trapped by the process machine.

It seems in old days, when things were less standardized, maintainers had more creative control over not only the code, but the process/community around it.

I’m not advocating for a demise of GitHub. Just kind of wondering if this is the price we pay.