When git replaced SVN, it was so empowering that I, as an individual, was able to use the full maintainer workflow without the blessing of a maintainer, privately by default.
Before git, we saved the output of "svn diff" into a .patch file for tracking personal changes. When submitting a patch, the maintainer had to write a commit message for you. With some luck, you even got credited. For sharing a sensible feature-branch, you had to become a maintainer with full access. This higher bar has advantages (it tends to create more full-access maintainers, for one). However, it sends this message: "Yes open source, but you are not one of us."
Yes, fossil has this great feature of showing "what was everyone up to after release X". I miss that in git. (Closest workaround: git fetch --all && gitk --all.) But if "everyone" means just the core devs, then I'm out.