For outsiders, it looks like the maintainer is greedy to keep the project to themselves. The bug reports pile up, and dozens of people are offerring to maintain. And then insults start to come up, because it looks like you don't want to hand it over.
If you want to take over a project, you just earn the trust if the current maintainer, be it patches for existing PRs, finding security vuons, etc over the time. Linux has gotten this right.
For outsiders, it looks like the maintainer is greedy to keep the project to themselves. The bug reports pile up, and dozens of people are offerring to maintain. And then insults start to come up, because it looks like you don't want to hand it over.
If you want to take over a project, you just earn the trust if the current maintainer, be it patches for existing PRs, finding security vuons, etc over the time. Linux has gotten this right.