Of course, this is extremely frequent and easiest to see with small businesses (which make up a good proportion of all productive organizations) that are often

Of course, this is extremely frequent and easiest to see with small businesses (which make up a good proportion of all productive organizations) that are often limited by the time the owner puts into them, and yet can remain in operation for many many years. Restaurants, your plumber, a family-famer, a small hotel, a tourist charter / operator, etc. Considering the main productive work of developing wikipedia is done by volunteers, does funding need to grow vastly in order to keep growing that? And if the goal is to create accessible and open knowledge for all and a superior competitor came along that was able to thoroughly outcompete and obsolete wikipedia unless vast amounts of money kept coming in, it doesn't seem like the goal would necessarily be lost. Might even be achieved better and cheaper.