NOTE TO CURRENT AND FUTURE SELF:
You do not own this project. Your goal is to get your PR accepted. This requires tact (even if the project owners are wrong).
If you want this and future pull requests to go in, don't clean up the sub-par kipple in commits from the reviewer+an LLM agent with a commit of your own that just says "cleaned up AI slop."
...even if that's what you really, really want to do. (Come subtoot here on Mastodon, instead.)