That's true, hence my "in a way". My contributions and the "an amazing project" contributions are not the same. There are lots of open source projects that have some infrastructure in place to help new people get their first PR, which will be more meaningful than a spam PR. Here's one example: https://www.firsttimersonly.com/. I'll encourage anyone reading this that never contributed to a project to give it a try. People are very welcoming, helpful, and at least for me it makes me very happy every time I get a PR merged.