I don't have a horse in this race -- at least not an entire horse -- but in the interest of the community I believe I have a few helpful things to say:
1) Saklad5, I appreciate your enthusiasm for improving KoLmafia, and the fact that you research your bug reports before making them. Unfortunately for both yourself and the developers, you seem rather oblivious to the way in which your messages are received in the larger context. Imagine I walked into your home of the last decade or so and started criticizing your decor choices, and suggesting a better placement for your lamps:
"There is no good reason to have these lamps where you have them," I declare after looking around. "Would you like me to move these lamps for you?" I say, to show my willingness to be helpful by doing it myself. "I think we can all agree putting this lamp over there would distribute the light better, right?"
I suspect you wouldn't take my suggestions very kindly, as those lamps work fine for you where you put them, and by the way also you are the person who built your house in the first place, and who am I to come in here and tell you where to put things? Even if I had multiple degrees in interior design, you'd probably take these unsolicited suggestions personally, and your instinctive reaction would be to tell me in no uncertain terms where I could stuff your lamps, without even considering the merits of moving them. This is how your posts here tend to come across, at least to me. The developers you are hoping to engage with your posts, who built this house we call KoLmafia, quite understandably have difficulty overlooking this context to address the validity of your suggestions. This house was built as a labor of love, and therefore criticisms of the house will be taken personally; it can't be helped. Therefore, it's important to frame them in descriptive way that shows that you care about the same things:
Good: "KoLmafia does not yet track daily use of item X. Here is a patch that adds tracking for it." (helpful, descriptive rather than prescriptive)
Bad: "KoLmafia really should track daily use of item X. Does anyone even care about tracking this? Well, it turns out it's not that difficult to do myself so here's a patch." (self-glorifying, accusatory, prescriptive comments are confrontational)
I do hope this helps. I would like for you to be able to maintain your enthusiasm for improving KoLmafia, but without stepping on so many important toes.
ii) Darzil (and all the devs), I for one greatly admire and appreciate all the time and effort you have put into making KoLmafia the wonderful tool that it is. It has, in turn, provided me with a fun and meaningful hobby over the last decade or so, and that's something I can't put a value on. Thank you.
c) I find it helpful when reading Saklad5's posts to imagine them in the voice of a slightly grumpy Winston Churchill addressing a group of lords. It makes the tone issues more forgivable. Try it!