This is indeed a pain point, a sole owner, one source of money, essentially a king. Or dictator. Or BDFL. Who knows. The idea is great, but like most (FOSS) id

This is indeed a pain point, a sole owner, one source of money, essentially a king. Or dictator. Or BDFL. Who knows. The idea is great, but like most (FOSS) ideas, it needs money, and money needs to come from somewhere. Existing commercial software doesn't track people for funsies, but as a way to make money. Granted, paid software didn't start out this way, but free software and services got in this realm pretty quickly as it's one of the very few viable ways we get mass market usable products (where usable doesn't mean it's any good, just that the mass market can actually do things with it). Even if everything is above board and ethical and perfect, at best it will just last a few decades and then the money is gone, the owner is dead, or the amount of projects has grown to a point where the money pool is too diluted to make the difference it set out to do. As-is, it is not sustainable. But it's great while it lasts.