This annoys me as well. And its not just AUR either, I hit this with pi.dev plugins, which are in NPM:
https://pi.dev/packages?name=permissions
Look how many duplicates there are, just because one person mildly changed am existing one, and never contributed back instead.
People are publishing their slop projects as if they intend on maintaining them, but they clearly aren't capable or willing to actually maintain them.