Personally, I don’t care. It’s a tool. It’s the same as when drag and drop GUI editors came around. I think using it in a project or as a maintainer is a personal decision.

What is interesting is how we praise open source maintainers for building (let’s remember) free software for us to use, but then the community is extremely quick to demonize them. It’s very easy to criticize, but I don’t see anyone stepping up to fix the list of issues themselves by hand either, to fork it and become the sole maintainer moving forward.

Maintaining open source is a thankless job, and they do it for free. They do not owe anyone anything, and their morals are their own. What was probably a side project years ago is now an entire operation, what was fun is probably now work, and yeah, if I was faced with the same dilemmas, I’d probably be looking for tools to relieve some stress too.