This reminds us of what we now call synthetic intimacy. It is not someone who actually cares; it is a malicious AI swarm trained to perform care, even intimacy, to a lonely maintainer. A maintainer cannot defend against this with their individual muscle alone, because it sounds like there is grassroots support for the new feature. Of course the grassroots has no roots — it is astroturfing — but he did not know that. To counter this new threat, we have to open up the stack of repair.