Projects like this are good for everyone even those who don't want to get their hands dirty. That's because these projects will influence and contribute to other projects that you likely care more about.
This is the same logic behind OpenBSD. You don't need to run OpenBSD to benefit from the security posture and fixes that they provide. Consider your life without ssh.
Probably a good reason to consider contributing to these projects.
That's a respectable approach. I feel the same about dbus and systemd - fine that they exist for some, but I'd rather see them not stretch tentacles into libresolv, ntpd, udev, firefox, wtmp/utmp, etc...
The problem being addressed is the Moore's Law equivalent of the Hedonic Treadmill.
Some of us don't want EVERY available byte of RAM or clock cycle occupied by bloated window managers, terminals, browsers, init systems, text editors, etc.
Suckless has a lot in common with the Handmade Network's philosophy. Keep it small, keep it simple, stop throwing a billion layers of abstraction on top of each other, give a shit about cache lines, heap fragmentation, pipeline flushes, etc.
We are mired in the Jevon's Paradox of the computing world right now. The faster hardware becomes, the more obese our software becomes to utilize it. And as a consequences, much worse.
This is the same logic behind OpenBSD. You don't need to run OpenBSD to benefit from the security posture and fixes that they provide. Consider your life without ssh.
Probably a good reason to consider contributing to these projects.