You are working from the point of view that the maintainers must under any circumstance accept your patch, that is not how things work.
Maintainers are allowed to pick any thing they want, or not. This is irrespective if the patch is of a purley technical nature, or not. If you feel that this patch is so important, the best thing you can do is make your own version of the program and maintain it to your own standards. You can remove, or add anything you want then. That is what free software means.
