I brought it up because if you can't contribute technically, you can contribute monetarily. Money can reduce stress. I bet you if FLOSS maintainers didn't have to worry about money, they'd be making very different choices in life.

Imagine if rsync were a fully funded project and the maintainer could employ devs and more maintainers to help out. Do you think they'd be happy to use AI? This dude is retired, gives his time to the project and is trying to make things better, but instead of helping, people are berating him for his approach without contributing a damn thing.

We aren't acting like anything. He wants to work on his passion project and people who have done absolutely nothing for the project are giving their unsolicited opinion on how he should work on his own goddamn project. They can all fuck off. It's his project. FLOSS maintainers don't owe us anything. Absolutely, nothing.