You could be projecting some. Hard to say. You seem to be making some very strong conclusions which is hard to know if they are correct. Explicit communication is best. But try to start from a more neutral position and don’t assume your feelings/perceptions are accurate to how she feels.

There’s active successors.

Have you never heard of red teaming?

It sounds like red teaming to me.

You don’t understand the value of someone red teaming?

Is there a way this kind of thing could be worked into lemmy as a feature?

My guess is that ultimately it’s to help deflect spam requests. Team is probably the ultimate decision makers but they need some way of defusing the onslaught of requests. I think dedicated user feedback platforms are usually better for that sort of thing but that’s additional service maintenence and they probably want to use github as much as possible for everything.

It only has 60 days and who is regularly browsing feature requests to up vote?