> Generally creating a lot of friction around contributing to a project defeats the whole purpose of open sourcing it.

Is this friction? I think it's quality standards, and a flow that's relevant to a time when code is more of a commodity than before.

And contributing code isn't all that's valuable in OSS. Bug/UX reports and feature ideas are really valuable, more valuable now than code IMO.

Even before LLMs, I was much more likely to report an issue to an project if it was open source and I could go look at the code and confirm what's happening. Reporting a bug w/o this feels like wasting my time. Without source visibility, I'm usually inclined to just stop using the software (e.g. Microsoft products, or even "freeware"). With code viz, I can confidently report a bug with some sense of what the fix might entail, how long it might take, what my expectations for a fix might be.