It's disheartening to have the top comment on this discussion be a discouragement from individual contributions because the solution is imperfect. Let me sugge

It's disheartening to have the top comment on this discussion be a discouragement from individual contributions because the solution is imperfect. Let me suggest a thought pattern which might ease your difficulty. It's hard to imagine a community better positioned than the devs themselves to evolve better solutions to these problems than they are. So the "ways to fund FOSS" they advocate, by for example asking represent some flavor of best solution we've come up with, despite all their flaws. So do what they ask, to the extent you find their packages useful.