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> It’s simply not economically viable to continue adding functionality to a product that does not generate any revenue.

I'd gently push back on this. If the primary purpose of the open source component of an open core project is to acquire new free users (top of funnel for paid users), then it provides some value. Any work spent keeping the open source experience good is essentially marketing spend and may make sense depending on the ROI. Agreed the incentive is to eventually get those users converted to paid users, but that's not inherently a bad thing IMO. Acknowledge there are better and worse ways to go about incentivizing users to convert to paid.

Overall I enjoyed the post. The latter half felt a bit less concise but intro was strong.