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Or you talk with the others first to see what kind of setup everyone thinks is good. I'd find it strange if someone barges into my project with a pull request that fundamentally changes the design of a major component

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Sure, a concrete proposal first would be a good idea.

That said, would you look a gift horse in the mouth?

Because you become responsible for feeding and taking said care of horse and dealing with any technical debt associated with it. If someone submits code to a project that I maintain that's going to make my life difficult in the future, I'm not going to accept it.

It doesn't matter how free a turd sandwich is.

There's no proposal that we can evaluate to determine whether it's a turd sandwich or not.

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