Last week I got the best feature request my open-source project has ever received. It was detailed, technically literate, fail-closed by design, and came from someone who clearly runs the tool harder than I do. I'm not going to build it. And the person who asked for it agrees — because the conversation ended with him shipping the fix, in his own layer, as a package other people can now use. I want to walk through how that happened, because the whole arc is a case study in a question I th...