I'm very happy to see this!
A few years ago I tried making some contributions to the TLC codebase. It was definitely "academic code," lacking tests, reinvesting basic structured instead of using them from libraries, and largely the work of a single contributor with seemingly no code reviews for commits. I was motivated to try to help improve things and wanted to get a sense for what that would be like by sending a small PR to get a feeling for working with the code owners. They basically stonewalled me. It was odd.