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Perhaps a solution has been discussed and is incoming from a regular developer?
They could deprecate the module where the change is "obviously" needed in a larger fix.
Frame it a different way: You're basing the needs of a project on your view of it, which, minus discussing things with project mgmt beforehand, may be incomplete.
Remember, they said "out of the blue" which means "without prior contact to discuss doing so."
This exact reason was explained in the parent post: maybe the maintainers and project owners don't see it as a problem or are already working on something.
It's not just about being a machine that can crank out fixes to the individual issues in software wherever you see them. It's about participating in a social project intended to fix a larger scale problem.
> Of course, I don't have any problem with getting my PRs closed, I'm not the one who would end up maintaining the code.
A reason alone not to send PR's "out of the blue". If you're just looking to pump and dump, I'd rather not involve you in the process, only to have to do work to fix/rm code down the road.
But I mean, above all, it's your time to waste.