> I usually find it easier to take their branch, do all of that work myself (attributing authorship to commits whenever appropriate), push it to the master branch and close the PR than puppeteering someone halfway across the globe through GitHub comments into doing all of that for me.

My most negative experiences with free and open source contributions have been like that. The one maintainer who engaged with me until my patches got into master was the best experience I ever had contributing to open source software to this day.

Pretty sad that people see engaging with other developers as "puppeteering someone halfway across the globe through GitHub comments"...