No one in their right mind thinks about people building free libraries on GitHub as nothing but positive thing. Come on. I am offended that you’re offended by this.

Usually, I would apologize for saying something offensive, but I guess someone will get offended on the internet. If I said “Wild Wild West” then may be some Texan would be offended by it.

Intention matters. Smile more and be tolerant, no offense :-)

Leaving them out would communicate the core idea, but not the emotional tone they wanted it to have.

(And it's obviously not about literal junkies, it's meant as "random people who don't know what they're doing").

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/junkie