Core developers are taking payments to submit pull requests. That is the state of development for Bitcoin at the moment. I have a feeling as time goes by we’re going to discover more and more bad behavior. People are tired of the way things have been going. There’s too much money behind Bitcoin for developers to be so easily paid for.
A fact you might have already known if you'd like, you know, actually read the links in the discussion above:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28130#issuecomment-1656714337There is no bad behavior in that, it's a fine example of how even if you don't know how to code yourself you can still get changes made to run yourself or share with others.
The worst behavior around bitcoin core is the hesitance to forcefully tell people who act like you to go fuck themselves.