Honestly, there’s the ego if “we did this when the paid elites didn’t” in a lot of open source communities. I contribute to many projects and it always rubs me the wrong way because they don’t consider how many other variables the team has to juggle, and what priorities are like. To be clear, I’m not saying this is everyone, and it’s often the vast minority but it also often goes unchecked and unchallenged when it does come up.

Of course part of that is because corporate development is a black box from the outside , but even if it weren’t, there’s no way people would keep up with it anyway.