People were more interested in bitching about edge cases where maintainers / projects / authors were doing things they should not have been doing in the first place than they were about addressing those issues, so he addressed them himself.
The man literally put up when others would not shut up.
The fact that YOU don't have a particular use case doesn't necessarily mean much. Billions of people don't use linux and this all doesn't matter to them.
But perhaps 30% could be in what you call "edge case", since your statistics is entirely based on yourself.
People were more interested in bitching about edge cases where maintainers / projects / authors were doing things they should not have been doing in the first place than they were about addressing those issues, so he addressed them himself.
The man literally put up when others would not shut up.