What was the "hell of a lot" of time you spent on Monero, if not development?
"As soon as you start paying me a salary (which I'd probably refuse anyway, because I don't need the money nor the headache) you can start having a say about how I spend my time, not before."
Get help.
BTW, there are more than 9 commits. There is a bug in the github search function, and you not having a clue how to access the actual records doesn't help. I went over that with another troll once, I'm not going to do it again.
You likewise have no clue how careful software development works when dealing with an undocumented, hastily-constructed foreign code base. One minute per commit..ROFL.
Since you asked, one thing I did (a while back) was completely rewrite a mostly working mockup of the entire consensus code in another language an an intellectual exercise to learn the details of how it worked. It was interesting and fun, and has been invaluable in finding subtle bugs and issues.