Because very often their motives are just lack of knowledge (e.g. here that there is an image you can run the 8GB RPi4 from).
Because quite some requests make supporters and contributors victim to the XY problem like in #8 of
How to ask a good question / Help Us Help You - Tutorials & Examples - openHAB Community.
Because I want to learn about what we might consider to become features in future development.
We put a hell lot of our spare time into making things work. That is only feasible if you restrict yourself to a number of prerequisites such as choice of HW and OS.
If you don’t like it you don’t have to use it.
It is disrespectful and to me not acceptable to ask volunteers to do exactly those pieces of work we are trying to avoid (such as to find out why it does not work on your specific preferred combo) although we have stated in the README and on many more occasions that we cannot afford spending that much time or don’t have the HW available or whatever reason - the bottom line is that’s disrespectful.
Seriously, why are you
- who has not contributed anything to openHABian and who is not even the OP to have a problem -
so disrespectful against volunteers spending their spare time to provide you with a free tool that is of benefit to many people ?
This is the second time in a fortnight you do this for no apparent let alone acceptable reason.