Totally agree. I have 100+ repositories open sourced (Just launched this website yesterday! https://statux.dev/), a handful of them with 1k+ stars, and for the most part it's just me maintaining those.
This is besides my fulltime job, friends and hobbies. So I don't really have much time for growing a community, I've done some effort in the past when I had more time and it worked fairly well, but I found it to be very project-oriented in general so if you do many smaller projects (as opposed to few large ones) the community approach doesn't scale well.
I don't encounter many mean/crazy people! I can count them with one hand. I find few entitled people, but most people I've found are nice.
This is besides my fulltime job, friends and hobbies. So I don't really have much time for growing a community, I've done some effort in the past when I had more time and it worked fairly well, but I found it to be very project-oriented in general so if you do many smaller projects (as opposed to few large ones) the community approach doesn't scale well.
I don't encounter many mean/crazy people! I can count them with one hand. I find few entitled people, but most people I've found are nice.