Help me understand how anyone could not base their evaluation on what you made public. Isn’t it kind of the idea with open source that your competence shows in the work you publish?
Disabled error handling is a huge red flag to me, as I’ve seen this having bad consequences for projects. Now, I haven’t reviewed your code, so it might be that you did this with precision, knowing perfectly well where it would be safe. On the other hand, given the AI provenance of your changes, my default assumption would be one of great suspicion - and I would be inclined not to engage with the code, for reasons I outlined elsewhere:
While I don’t doubt your good intentions, I can understand the reception your announcement got. This could have been launched very differently, potentially with a better initial outcome.
Working together and combining efforts seems like a good thing to me. I hope you will find enough alignment in goals to reach cooperation on some level, unless the two projects have already diverged too far to share patches.