Similarly, if your modules are that popular and causing enough of a support burden to result in resentment, maybe this is a signal of an opportunity?

If your code is popular, why not offer support to, or seek out sponsorship from, the companies that are using your modules/applications? A revenue-focused startup is probably a bad resource to tap for this. But getting a few companies to spread out a few hundred dollars each from their engineering/marketing budgets isn't completely unlikely.

Otherwise, you can always recite the age-old mantra to cleansing open source entitlement resentment: "Patches welcome."