I appreciate you willing to have a mature conversation about this. Thank you.
I know OSS is a thankless job most of the time. You’re right, the potential for people to contribute is always there but unfortunately not always as much as the creator would like. The more popular the software is the more likely people will contribute. I think for me I’m just trying to help give advice on how to make it more popular. Would it make 100’s of people come out of the woods and contribute, probably not. Would it encourage a few more people like myself to do so, maybe.
Either way we all appreciate the work you guys do, even if we don’t say it all the time.