To make an analogy: math is like OSS. You are free to fork and create your own feature, maintainer has no obligation to look at your PR and improve it to a state that’s worth merging.
Eg This happened to Zig where the Bun team maintained a fork for a while. And I’m sure there’re countless examples.
An instance of a maintainer finding a PR so interesting and keep digesting it and eventually even give a talk about it, is irrelevant. It is entirely their free will to do so.
You speak of this as if the default is to engage.
To make an analogy: math is like OSS. You are free to fork and create your own feature, maintainer has no obligation to look at your PR and improve it to a state that’s worth merging. Eg This happened to Zig where the Bun team maintained a fork for a while. And I’m sure there’re countless examples. An instance of a maintainer finding a PR so interesting and keep digesting it and eventually even give a talk about it, is irrelevant. It is entirely their free will to do so.