IME it's always a moving goalpost. Of course people will say they'll donate if you just do this one thing, but it's not true. They'll find some reason not to do

IME it's always a moving goalpost. Of course people will say they'll donate if you just do this one thing, but it's not true. They'll find some reason not to donate because there's always reasons and that's that. So you can't rely on donations. Doesn't matter the project. Mozilla, KDE, anything Canonical does, Gnome, Debian... someone will say "this isn't ideologically pure enough" and then not donate. But they're bullshitting you - they never would've donated.