"We need the source code." No, you want the source code. You want software someone else put their time, effort, and judgement into to be available for you to do

"We need the source code." No, you want the source code. You want software someone else put their time, effort, and judgement into to be available for you to do whatever you'd like with it without any recompense. The sense of entitlement here is exhausting. There are plenty of good reasons to choose an an open source tools and sure, the ability to personalize a tool at the source layer can be valuable enough in some instances to justify maintaining a fork manually or with an agent. Asserting that dev tools must be open source to prioritize a paradigm where users roll the dice on adding features by one-shotting them with an agent and then burning tokens until the end of time to try to keep their forks compatible with upstream changes because plugin APIs are too restrictive doesn't pass muster.