9 month compile time?? We’ve gotta get these numbers down

I’m going to guess you’ve never been part of a project with complexity and sheer black magic fuckery comparable to Ventoy. The developer (a singular person) had to make a choice between:

• Pandering to a small group of vocal open-source extremists, dedicating a large part of their time to changing the incredibly complex build process to also build the binaries of other open-source projects, potentially at the cost of stability, eventually arriving at a product with the same feature set, pleasing some open-source extremists, but still receiving criticism for “taking a year to respond to a genuine concern”; or
• Not doing that and focusing their effort on stability and compatibility fixes to arrive at an improved product.

I’ve read the original issue thread front to back, and it’s a fucking clown show. I can’t blame the developer for not wanting to engage with those people. Nobody is entitled to the developer’s time or attention. Right now the issue is being worked on, which is more than most of the whiners can say about themselves; if you think that’s still insufficient, do better.