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Writing good code does not excuse you from being an arsehole. I'm glad most of the FOSS community has moved on from sheer meritocracy. In the end such behaviour will always also affect the software.
Or at least the merit part of meritocracy being an overall gain for society/foss space (same thing), not individual isolated achievements/products.
With that mindset of overall benefits you do move on from strict meritocracy bcs everything is a group effort, of not just direct contributors (but obviously mostly of them) but ultimately of all stakeholders (users too).
We all need to grow, and I think, given reasonable opportuneness, we do.