[jiofih]

Isn’t it beautiful? You create an open-source community, grow it, get donations, start selling the product, sell cloud services, and finally sell content and training to actually be able to understand the complexity.

All to deploy static websites, something you can do for free with near zero complexity by simply choosing another option. The JS world has become a marketing machine.

[ValentineC]

I don't think the abovementioned course creator works in Gatsby, Inc, or contributes significantly (I see a few small pull requests) to the Gatsby open source project.