I actually bought the collabora vanilla Libre Office App on the Appstore that is mentioned in the article for 10€ because at some point the Mac HiDPI support wa

I actually bought the collabora vanilla Libre Office App on the Appstore that is mentioned in the article for 10€ because at some point the Mac HiDPI support was horrible on the stable community edition and I would rather pay 10€ than to figure out how to make thing work... Call me sheep I'm fine with it. I guess the official release is meant to appeal to such use case and profit from direct monetary contribution to the project. I hope collabora played it fair an square and contributed to upstream, but an official release is a good way to ensure no middle party can cash in for a minimal packaging effort.