Genuine question: Why not just close such derailing and burdensome issues and/or block mean people?
My guess: People would freak out if FOSS maintainers actually did this.
My guess: People would freak out if FOSS maintainers actually did this.
A variation on this is the above plus they get a hoard of friends/wellwishers/bots etc to raise more issues claiming censorship and it devolves into a massive ad hominem flame war, doxxing, death threats and the usual rubbish that ruin a good thing.