This would of course be nice since the fact that so much of our infrastructure is based on the work of people sharing it openly, a practice heavily in contrast

This would of course be nice since the fact that so much of our infrastructure is based on the work of people sharing it openly, a practice heavily in contrast to industry behavior, is sadly still a little known fact outside of software development. The demand for more assistance here is the angle that was played in social engineering, specifically the demand to acquire more maintainers due to workload. Especially if such support would take the form like providing source archives with manipulated build scripts that are rarely checked by third parties. There is also a problem of badly behaving industry that tries to take control of "hobby projects". Speaking of which, these "hobby"-projects often have much better code than many, many industry codebases. I think FOSS overall still lessens the risk. It got more risky since it has been integrated in social media since these often allow for developer being shouted down or exploited much more easily.