I also hope that in the future more open source development will be funded in a sustainable way, but as it stands right now I very much hope that it's not via T

I also hope that in the future more open source development will be funded in a sustainable way, but as it stands right now I very much hope that it's not via Tidelift. Of all the approaches I've seen so far, Tidelift is among the most intransparent ones, and with that a very bad fit for open source in my opinion.