Regarding the open core and proprietary extensions model. The usual endgame of that is what hashicorp seems to have just done - deprecate the open source part i

Regarding the open core and proprietary extensions model. The usual endgame of that is what hashicorp seems to have just done - deprecate the open source part in favour of the part that makes money. This bait&switch is no longer novel. Be open source friendly to leverage the community and then pull the rug is probably taught strategy in VC themed business schools by this point. If you're going to do the same thing in a while anyway, one may as well stay with hashicorp. Is there a reason to believe you will remain viable as an open source product long into the future?