My most awkward experience was a maintainer commenting on my feature request just to prompt a bot to "explain to issue reporter why this is very hard to implement."

It felt like they were trying to avoid me. They could have simply addressed me and given me the explanation they gave to the bot: it would have been simpler for him and more polite. I did in fact reply without waiting for the bot.

It's as though you're talking to someone and they were said to their 'assistant', "Explain this to this person" and walked away. It doesn't really matter what the explanation is, it's just gross.