Ok, but I guess those contributions are reviewed and accepted by someone?

What am I trying to say is that for an outsider point of view, what it looks and sounds like is that there's something like a caste witu diatinct social position and relevance between devs.. again I really know nothing and asking questions to understand better, but I can tell you what the feeling is, and I have it before all this knot drama happened..

Looks social stratification between core devs and other devs..