IMO, you’re not really an open source project if you’re not accepting contributions with reasonably low friction.

I’ll call this what it is: a commercial product (they have a pricing page) that uses open source as marketing to sell more licenses.

The only PRs they want are ones that offer free professional level labor.

They’re too uncaring about the benefits of an open community to come up with a workflow to adapt to AI.

It honestly gives me a lack of confidence that they can maintain their own code quality standards with their own employees.

Think about it: when/if this company grows to a larger size, if they can’t handle AI slop from contributors how can they handle AI slop from a large employee base?