Oh, yeah.

As someone who has written and maintained a lot of "infrastructure-level" stuff, I have come to learn that releasing a project that serves users, or is infrastructure for other projects, is like having children.

Making them is fun. Releasing them, is a pain, but, once they are out there, it is my Responsibility to support them, and accept that they have their own agency.

I can't just go in and pretend that I'm Lord Farquaad, and treat the project as if it's my private fiefdom. It's now a public resource, and my decisions and actions affect a lot of others. I also tend to write software that supports folks with a rather ... pithy ... demeanor, so screwups can result in not-pleasant feedback.

That's a big reason why I don't mind that most of my public repos aren't popular.