Can anyone explain the urge of FOSS developers to close any discussion?

Many FOSS projects dwell on Github. Github, in their wisdom, allows the project owners to close bug reports and discussion topics to further responses. The project owners use this function to the fullest, every time, all the time.

When challenged, they do not articulate any reasoning for doing so. They simply close off everything that pops up: questions, bug reports, suggestions, yada, yada, yada. As soon as possible. Right away.

Explain to me why. Explain to me why it is so important that no one could contribute to the discussion. Explain to me why they absolutely need the user to be shut up. Explain to me how is this consistent with the spirit of FOSS. Or is it all lies, smoke and mirrors, baloney?

The only theory I am able to come up with is that they are incentivized to that by the owner of Gitgub, i.e. by Microsoft. There must be some mechanism that goads the project owners to close discussions thus preventing the OP from asking additional questions or others from offering their help. The goal of this is, of course, to make Linux shit and to coax its users to use Windows. Well, if everyone wins in the end, why should I bother?

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