From https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/8/494:

The other thing which is super rare is people and companies who care about tech debt cleanup, code maintainability, and code quality. Instead of complaining about maintainers for who are unreasonably caring about these things, when they are desparately under-resourced to do as good of a job as they industry demands, how about meeting us half-way and helping us with these sort of long-term code health issues? Maybe if you engage us as part of the community, we'll be a lot more open to adding changes that might increase the code maintenance burden?