You can't simultaneously rail against ads, which is our best model for scaled monetization, or complain against paywall and then say it is killing the business

You can't simultaneously rail against ads, which is our best model for scaled monetization, or complain against paywall and then say it is killing the business model. Stuff costs money but unfortunately we as a society have come to expect free stuff, and businesses are just catering to it. If not for Google, ChatGPT or someone else will do it.