Open source is weird. It’s like everyone on the entire planet is your coworker and you have no real say in their hiring, on boarding, or firing.

I can see why there is trepidation and guard rails around giving them the key to your office planner.

I don’t see how this demonstrates that at all. Issues as a concept seems sound. There is a huge variety of social structures that are built around issues which might make it a good or bad fit