[xmodem]

I see a lot of commentators in this thread who are aggressively critical of volunteer maintainers for making a decision about how to maximize the value of the free labor they donate to the world.

And yet none have offered to volunteer their time to maintain a downstream fork or otherwise rectify the perceived problem.

Strange.

[Jblx2]

Which "volunteers" are you referring to? Bun? yt-dlp?

[tredre3]

yt-dlp, clearly. Bun has no volunteers (as of the rust rewrite at least, it's all highly paid SWEs and GPUs.)