Wow. That is really amazing; you don't often hear this about contributions. Kudos to Open Library team. Thanks for capturing.
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In that case I suggest finding a commercially-backed, open source project which you are passionate about. You can have best of both worlds - plenty of bugs and community interaction, all while also making a living out of it.
Generally SLAs get tracked or brought up when project is not going well; so it is mostly reactive and not proactive.
If you are REALLY serious about fixing this, I recommend a book called "Non Violent Communication" https://www.amazon.ca/Nonviolent-Communication-Language-Life... Satya Nadella claims it was one of the reasons he was able to turn around Microsoft.
The way you express your needs may resonate better if you adopt
That said, anything closer to VS Code will likely be perceived well.
Once done with that you can search other Figma-related tutorials. Figma dominates the design market these days.