> When people talk about burnout in open source, the conversation often centers on workload, too many issues, too many requests, too much responsibility.

Why not simply ignore all this stuff by the maxim "my software - my vision":

- If some request does not serve your vision for the software: close it.

- If you cannot handle the workload: work less on the program.

- If issues exist which you cannot fix very fast: take your time to fix it. Nobody is willing to pay you big money for fixing the issue, so a fix does not seem to be very urgent for the users.

- Too much responsibility: if the software was indeed such an important piece of infrastructure, people would pay you big money for you to maintain it.