You're missing the point, if this was just an unmerged PR no one would care.
But it's likely the paid Enterprise edition has merged this already, and now the same entity has an incentive to block this from the OSS version.
But it's likely the paid Enterprise edition has merged this already, and now the same entity has an incentive to block this from the OSS version.
Says who? A random commenter on the thread who's not even the submitter of the code?
The reviewers of the OSS code are still heavily incentivized to block this PR. Worse, if they knew a similar feature was being built for enterprise and this would never be merged into the free version, they be wasting months of contributors' time and effort.