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Re:WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN by jchw on Monday March 02, 2020 @11:16AM (#22465684)
> turn away suggestions and PRs from people who need additional functionality, even if the changes would have no material impact on the author's usage.

Whether it impacts a specific use case is usually here nor there - it’s usually about maintainability. And while finding contributors for open source projects can be difficult, finding people who want to do the thankless work of maintaining code long-term is much harder.

Re:WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN by bityard on Monday March 02, 2020 @04:23PM (#22469174)
I guess my point was that "opinionated" generally seems to imply maintainability at the (explicit and very intentional) expense of utility.