Nothing infuriates me more than googling for a problem I’m having and finding a relevant issue that’s been closed by a bot as “stale”.

I _get_ that I don’t have any right to free maintenance, but the stale bot paints some veneer of process around a maintainer thinking “issue looks hard, doesn’t affect me, so I don’t care”. I would just so much prefer them to be honest and just say that rather than passive-aggressively send me emails every 30 days warning that my issue is becoming stale or whatever.