The problem is not not wanting to pay for software. Hashicorp enterprise products have very interesting features which the open source code is lacking (e.g. nomad namespacing) but they are insanely expensive so you are forced to use the open source versions as the enterprise versions are targeted at fortune x companies.
"I want all of the functionality I want without having to pay for it." I hate how discussions around software businesses so often descend into purity tests around how much a company chooses to give away. Software is indeed eating the world, but the eternal battle of who has to pay for the underlying tools of said software continues.