I thought this was going to be about gnome's controversial design decisions.

In any case, I think the author is misguided, spending valuable energy in a futile endeavour.

Just use a patched version with your own fix. A lot of package managers make this trivial.

When I send code upstream, I don't care about it at all. If they ignore me, it doesn't affect me because I am already running my own version.

Nowadays, this is even easier because you can use llms to handle the possible merge conflicts during updates.