For context, this rant was inspired by someone who complained that "1. Improve the code yourself" was prohibitively slow and even if you did solve the problem there could be a months/years-long turnaround only for it to be declined:
I don't think they're wrong that it's not a great way to work for the contributor and I can see why they'd want to write this gist in frustration. They're obviously being mostly fair to the people involved, but think that the process is just tedious and bad for contributors.
So I think you're off base; you're not in fact talking about the same issue here and Hickey is addressing real contributors who are trying to improve the code.
https://gist.github.com/halgari/c17f378718cbd2fd82324002133e...
I don't think they're wrong that it's not a great way to work for the contributor and I can see why they'd want to write this gist in frustration. They're obviously being mostly fair to the people involved, but think that the process is just tedious and bad for contributors.
So I think you're off base; you're not in fact talking about the same issue here and Hickey is addressing real contributors who are trying to improve the code.