I get where you're coming from, but is that the reality? What I've seen in practice is that the useful features in question are only useful to very large compa

I get where you're coming from, but is that the reality? What I've seen in practice is that the useful features in question are only useful to very large companies, which is why they're gated. Logic being, "if you're in need of this, you most definitely can afford the premium product, and we'd like you to be sponsoring our work since it's necessary for you to make money". Is it better to let the open source project die on the Hill of Principles, and have nobody actually benefit from the potential wasted work?