@fasterthanlime Thanks for your writing! - I think most of the people involved in OpenSource know similiar stories from their projects. I pretty much am with you on all statements and I am not part of rust community internals, but I have a question...
In open source - at least in my opinion - there's no way to steer a workload. You can give incentives by being a nice community - whatever that means to an individual. But saying "instead of X, you should've done Y" is a bossy move and actually is malicious.