it also increases the barrier to new adopters

why not use ai to help with the ai problem, why prefer this extra coordination effort and implementation?

That's the whole point. There are many new adopters and few competent ones.

	▲	verdverm 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I mean to well meaning contributors, I understand the goal of vouch, I think it goes too far and you'll turn off said well meaning contributors I certainly have dropped off when projects have burdensome rules, even before ai slop fest

The barrier in the Ghostty project is to simply open a discussion. It's not really hard.