The whole narration around “contributing”, “PR welcome!” in OSS completely eluded the fact that making a PR is only a tiny and the easiest fraction of the work needed to integrate suggestions from random people from the internet into a cohesive result.
Maybe one thing you could try to add is a kind of tit for tat statement in CONTRIBUTING.md
. Something of the form (better said) we are happy to take you work, but integrating and maintaining it takes time and ressources, there is a social expectation that for any PR merged of yours you will make a full review of another PR.