I hope you understand then that merging maintainable code is also a very important part of dev. *especially* in unpaid OSS.
We have lots of features of Dolphin that were merged in without much thought to maintainability, now it's a buggy PITA that nobody wants to touch yet users slam into bugs with constantly.
We have lots of features of Dolphin that were merged in without much thought to maintainability, now it's a buggy PITA that nobody wants to touch yet users slam into bugs with constantly.