Libreoffice provides a commodity for free. That's the whole value proposition. It's implied by the Libre part of the name. So, convincing businesses to donate money out of charity for "support" is not a business plan and never has been. The call for businesses to please pay up seems to indicate that the shift to introducing a community edition had little to no effect on the bank balances of the companies peddling vague support contracts and LTS versions of LibreOffice. IMHO that was a doomed and rather desperate move at the time and this rather desperate call for "please give us some money" just doesn't resonate with me at all. Why do I need to pay? For what exactly?

I'm well aware that the consequence of nobody paying for this might mean feature development will vastly reduce and probably support will drop to a handful of people occasionally patching up and recompiling the same old software that has been more than good enough for the last decade. That's actually fine with me as I can't actually name a single thing they've added in the last 15 years that actually matters to me; at all.

To be clear, I'm so indifferent about office suites in general at this point that I haven't actually had a copy of LibreOffice on any of my computers in years. The need just never came up lately. And that would have been almost exclusively people emailing me stuff created with MS Office before that. Just not a thing any more. I also don't use any MS Office products. I seem to have been in companies that use Google Docs the last few years and I get by with the limited feature set provided by that. Their collaborative features are awesome though and a good reason to put up with their otherwise limited features. Office tools just no longer are the must have tool to have for people. And in so far they are, they are a worthless commodity.