User resources: time, computer CPU and memory, user network bandwith, etc. are free for company. Why care? In free software, developers are users, so they care

User resources: time, computer CPU and memory, user network bandwith, etc. are free for company. Why care? In free software, developers are users, so they care. Software is free, but developer_as_user time is not free, so it better to spent 1 hour time once to save 1 minute every time in the future. In commercial software, developers are not users, so they don't care. Software is paid, so ROI is important, thus it better not to spent 100 hours of developer time + 1 hour of upkeeping time every month to save 1 minute of users time, unless it's important to crush a competitor. Commercial producers are quadruple prices, until users stop to buy, drops quality, until users stop to buy, stuff ads in, until users stop to buy, shrinkflate, until users stop to buy, and so on. Did you switch to a competitor product? No? Then why company should care? Vote with your money.