Not even the mafia has it that good. You only pay them so they won’t beat you up. Imagine if you paid them to beat you up and then paid them to protect you from them.
Depends. I'm not suffering it at all, but I'm a sort of research project producing variations on audio processing under MIT license.
And I don't take pull requests: only exception has been to accomodate a downstream user who was running a script to incorporate the code, and that was so out of my usual experience that it took way to long to register it was a legitimate pull request.