Nah people will be people, and a part of being a person is wanting approval from other people for something. And there will always be at least a few appreciative members of said userbase: I'm one of them.

Doesn't matter if they didn't actually write the code, but they put effort into refining an idea for a problem into a solution that fit their needs, and in sharing they've given those who never thought of it a base they can work from if they want or just go make something similar from scratch.