The blog post is just an open attack on the maintainer and constantly references their name and acting as if not accepting AI contributions is like some super evil thing the maintainer is personally doing. This type of name-calling is really bad and can go out of control soon.
From the blog post:
> Scott doesn’t want to lose his status as “the matplotlib performance guy,” so he blocks competition from AI
From the blog post:
> Scott doesn’t want to lose his status as “the matplotlib performance guy,” so he blocks competition from AI
Like it's legit insane.