[thierrydamiba]

Does their goal in this specific venture have to be making money or funneling devs directly into the Meta-verse?

Meta makes a lot of money already and seems to be working on multiple moonshot projects as well.

As you mentioned the FOSS crowd knows how to hold a grudge. Could this be an attempt to win back that crowd and shift public opinion on Meta?

There is a non-zero chance that Llama is a brand rehabilitation campaign at the core.

The proxy war element could just be icing on the cake.