I work in open source, as a hobby, I made roughly $200 in donations in 10 or so years. I also know the feeling of people getting mad when I make a change that

I work in open source, as a hobby, I made roughly $200 in donations in 10 or so years. I also know the feeling of people getting mad when I make a change that I believe it is good but others (users) hate it. I agree and would like to echo chamber the issue that for every maintainer there are thousands of users that don't give back anything, not even a thank you. I think our reliance on github causes us to have inefficient or ineffective tools to promote good opensource. I think github sponsors has been a good idea but its execution is extremely poor. (Tl;dr it is ineffective and doesn't plug in the rest of the echo system) There is some psychological aspect for sure in using open source code and not paying for it: the moment you pay you expect some entitlement over support and direction of the project, but I am know psychologist. That being said this blogpost is great, but nothing ever changes as a result, sadly.