I have no issue with this basic premise. Its annoying if you want to pay nothing for a mature, nuanced service, but in my mind its the most equitable way to com

I have no issue with this basic premise. Its annoying if you want to pay nothing for a mature, nuanced service, but in my mind its the most equitable way to compensate open source development teams. Dual licensing, "enterprise" features, and such seem to be popular, but are really frustrating to work with and buy. No knock on software salespeople, but I've candidly never had a pleasant experience around any sales or marketing interaction with an OSS team. I would far rather pay for expertise than suffer endless email marketing, inside sales lead qualification, waiting for the AE to ask an internal expert, and getting spun around whether a needed feature does/will exist. That entire apparatus seems to exist to extract money from corporate bank accounts while development is a cost center rather than main focus of the team. More fundamentally, complexity has more to do with the problem space than the business model.