this is very true because a pull request that solves a problem that the software's maintainer is also interested in solving is one that will be merged quickly. it's the frilly things that nobody else really needs, are difficult to review and merge, don't include tests, aren't particularly well written, and/or will only make the codebase worse just to appease someone's half-baked use case of dubious validity that typically sit in the queue for weeks or months.