Hard to tell from that PR... but just looking at it, it does look a bit chaotic. Maybe if it wasn't clear, he should have discussed it with the core devs before? I cannot imagine it's easy maintaining an open source projects with PR's flowing in without context.
I might have linked the wrong PR. Well here is the full context.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44766771#44809551
Hard to tell from that PR... but just looking at it, it does look a bit chaotic. Maybe if it wasn't clear, he should have discussed it with the core devs before? I cannot imagine it's easy maintaining an open source projects with PR's flowing in without context.