Strongly agree with your first part, but with the second part, it's not always a lack of drive. I have a ~3k stars github project, and tried fairly hard to mone

Strongly agree with your first part, but with the second part, it's not always a lack of drive. I have a ~3k stars github project, and tried fairly hard to monetize it (even took VC money at one point), but without any success. I realized that monetizing is mostly about selling, which I'm simply not good at (probably because I hate it). Telling open source developers to simply get more hustle isn't really a solution. A big open source project isn't even good for your career. In my experience, recruiters don't care at all.