Remember the context here. Yes, commercially-owned AGPL projects that require CLAs are not especially easy to contribute to. FOSS projects can be more or less easy to contribute to for lots of reasons, and most of those reasons aren't "seedy". I'd argue that in most cases, the CLA case isn't "seedy" either: the commercial sponsor funds most of the work; the project isn't an elaborate scheme to get free dev cycles from the community, but rather trades access to code (and the potential for a hostile fork) for greater adoption. That seems like a trade that Kuhn should welcome.