Is there a standard rule of engagement for submitting a pull request to a public project to fix a "bug" you think could possibly be an intentional mis-feature?

Do you just fire and be like "Reject this if this is intentional", or open an issue, or is it per project, or does it not matter because I'm overthinking social coding conventions?

@trysdyn Open the issue anyway, tbh; generally speaking programmers are absolutely full of themselves, and will readily close it with the comment it's not a bug even if it's tremendously inconvenient to anyone actually trying to use the software in question.

@Thaminga This is true.

Making the jump from ops to actual engineering is hard v_v; A whole lot more ego than I expected.
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