I really don’t understand solo unpaid maintainers who feel “pressure” from users. My response would always be: it’s my repo, my code, if you don’t like how I’m doing things, fork the code megashrug.
You owe them nothing. That fact doesn’t mean maintainers or users should be a*holes to each other, it just means that as a user, you should be grateful and you get what you get, unless you want to contribute.
Or, to put it another way: you owe them exactly what they’ve paid for!
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