That’s highly unlike my experience: each of those tools was popular first - the AWS offerings were recognizing widespread customer use. You couldn’t go to a mee

That’s highly unlike my experience: each of those tools was popular first - the AWS offerings were recognizing widespread customer use. You couldn’t go to a meetup without someone handing out ES or MongoDB stickers by the time AWS decided that was a market worth being in. I do agree there’s some value in wider use but developers have to get paid. If users are paying someone who doesn’t contribute much to the upstream codebase at some point the project is going to founder. I don’t love the change as someone who’s been using open source for decades but the maintainer problem is real and won’t go away without structural changes.