And creates a new class of problems. Why not just fork the project and modify it yourself at that point, and cut out the maintainer middleman.
So almost everything is forked and I then just have the agent keep my changes in sync with upstream. Works like a charm. I suspect my pattern is commonplace.
Do you realize that all the major package system on BSD and Linux works that way. You take upstream, patch it to get it to compile on the system, and then build a package. That is what open source is about. It's not about building a community and what's not.
The problem is sloppers really, really want other people to use their code, so they feel useful for doing a bit of prompting, probably to rationalize how much they pay Anthropic et al to do the actual work for them. I just wish they'd direct that money directly to the projects they find useful instead of trying to insert themselves as middlemen.