Viscerally understand the sentiment as someone who handles vague technical feedback here and there, but I've also seen this attitude kill off project enthusiasm almost completely, specifically with D&D/pathfinder character sheet manager PCGen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCGen
In an era before github issues, the project got a lot of requests via the Yahoo groups mailing list that were often of suspect quality, but usually addressing a real flaw with the software. At some point near the end of the mailing group's life cycle, the most active maintainers really took a shift in the angry direction, and I think that led to a lot of people on Reddit, rpg.net, giantitp, etc no longer recommending it.
This might not seem like a problem, but over a long enough long frame, low user interest for a formerly popular piece of software does seem to inevitably lead to a loss of maintainers.
In an era before github issues, the project got a lot of requests via the Yahoo groups mailing list that were often of suspect quality, but usually addressing a real flaw with the software. At some point near the end of the mailing group's life cycle, the most active maintainers really took a shift in the angry direction, and I think that led to a lot of people on Reddit, rpg.net, giantitp, etc no longer recommending it.
This might not seem like a problem, but over a long enough long frame, low user interest for a formerly popular piece of software does seem to inevitably lead to a loss of maintainers.