I wouldn’t say it does so across the board. Rather, it filters contributions to only encourage those of the kind they desire.
There’s also the question of whether they even want “more contribution”. The less features, the less maintenance burden… Less maintenance burden, easier for fewer people to accomplish the work… Fewer people means less coordinating effort.
Simplicity seems to lead to a virtuous cycle here.
I wouldn’t say it does so across the board. Rather, it filters contributions to only encourage those of the kind they desire.
There’s also the question of whether they even want “more contribution”. The less features, the less maintenance burden… Less maintenance burden, easier for fewer people to accomplish the work… Fewer people means less coordinating effort.
Simplicity seems to lead to a virtuous cycle here.