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These people show up, offer trivially incorrect or untenable solutions to the trickiest problems. Rarely do they have the insight that fixes them. Often they do things that introduce more risk.



That's one possibility -

Here's a story of the burnout of one of the GNOME terminal maintainers

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/259

In a situation where no amount of effort seems to be enough its really easy to not see the point anymore


Not all problems are tricky, there are plenty of easy-to-fix bugs that go unfixed.

For example, there is an internal product that I use daily that has broken http links in error/status messages.




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