There are already some Inkscape developers who accept donations, for example Tavmjong Bah [1] who has been a long time contributor and still actively works on it.

I'm not sure why you want new developers to donate to when the existing ones clearly didn't reach their goals yet.

[1] https://www.patreon.com/tavmjong

Thanks. Now this is an appropriate link asking for money for this thread. The post I was replying to was completely inappropriate and shameless hijacking of an Inkscape thread.

Probably because not everyone wants to mess with decade old dependency and just start with something fresh? So it is sad, that it is not open source, but apparently he proved the starting new approach is worth it.