I like those scare quotes. They really show the lack of respect for the people who actually maintain the stuff you use daily, most of them in their free time, including the ones that get paid (all the paid maintainers I know go well beyond the work hours, by a big margin).
I'm one of those people. I compile thousands of open source packages on VAX, m68k, SuperH and other less popular architectures. I think I know at least a bit about how much of this "maintenance" is repeated-but-not-substantiated bull and how much is real.
Claiming that actual maintainers spend more than trivial amounts of time on "maintaining" endianness correctness, I think, is somewhat disrespectful to those maintainers.
I like those scare quotes. They really show the lack of respect for the people who actually maintain the stuff you use daily, most of them in their free time, including the ones that get paid (all the paid maintainers I know go well beyond the work hours, by a big margin).