Are you sure that it prohibits their professional and personal growth?
It seems like a rather significant thing to state based on a single blog post. Do you know this person from before?
It seems like a rather significant thing to state based on a single blog post. Do you know this person from before?
Note that you are talking about a project that is older than quite a few of the people on HN and that it pays off to know how such a project operates before attempting to contribute, more so if you plan to go nuclear about your expectations not being met.
Finally, and if you do go nuclear it helps if you don't materially misrepresent the interaction with the maintainer, who did not exactly ask for your contribution.
They received a reported-by credit, which was more than sufficient — especially on a tiny patch that got rewritten.
The important work was identifying and reporting the issue, and they got credit for that.
By turning around and writing an angry blog post, they turned a non-issue into some seriously unpleasant drama. Nobody is going to particularly want to deal with them again.