As a maintainer you cannot control how people behave. There’s no point in lamenting that people act entitled.

Instead, it is more productive to develop strategies to ignore the noise from entitled voices. You do not need to respond to them. You do not need to convince them. You do not have to keep them happy.

> There’s no point in lamenting that people act entitled.

There is: it discourages people from acting entitled.

I suspect ignoring them is more effective than essentially complaining back.

Does it? How much of an impact do you think it has?