They are having to take on the burden of gently letting down other devs who are angry over a simple misunderstanding.

I feel like, if anyone would be happily willing to do that in their free time, they would have been a Politician or an HR and not a Developer.

I'm pretty n00b as a dev, but if I were to see someone misinterpreting my explanation, the most I would do is rephrase the same in a more understandable manner.
Definitely not going to resort to using "people management tactics", specially not in an Open Source Free Work setting, where the expectation is that the other person wants the good of the project as much as I do ^[as compared to a corporate setting, where if they are getting money to sit and do nothing, they will prefer that].

Facts are more important than feelings, specially when written text is the medium, where the reader can, at any time, go back and re-read to make sure they are at the same page, which a responsible, non-sleepy, non-drunk person would do in such a case.

On this note, I went and re-read the above comment and I realise, the "But that’s the thing where you are wrong." sentence is kinda useless. If the previous commenter were to have read the rest, they would realise that's where they were wrong. Mental note to not use useless stuff like this as the first sentence in a reply, because I probably have the habit

Yes, I know I joined both circumstances, this comment thread and the condition of the Rust Linux dev. It seemed relevant to me.