> There are around 19 full-time engineers staffed for the project from various companies

Various companies being all HashiCorp competitors: https://opentofu.org/supporters

Does it make them lesser engineers?

No, and I never suggested they are, what point are you trying to make?

Question to you, I guess. How is the sponsor relevant for the ability of an engineer to ship?

I didn't question the ability of engineers to ship.

Whatever point you were making, it would benefit from being made explicitly.

I do wish, for their own good, OpenTF/Tofu would stop making this comparison. What insight do they have about HashiCorp’s resourcing beyond some git commit history? Surely these folks know there are many more folks involved in providing a product with the scope of TF than just those committing code. While I do find myself nodding along to many of the OpenTF points, whenever I hear this one on podcasts and such it comes off as very naive.

Indeed we do have that insight. We actually spoke with many people intimately involved in the process.