To me this just shows that the Github issue concept is significantly flowed.

Open source is weird. It’s like everyone on the entire planet is your coworker and you have no real say in their hiring, on boarding, or firing.

I can see why there is trepidation and guard rails around giving them the key to your office planner.

I don’t see how this demonstrates that at all. Issues as a concept seems sound. There is a huge variety of social structures that are built around issues which might make it a good or bad fit