I would like for artisan, indie developers to be able to sustain some kind of a living off their work instead of being forced to work at a soul-sucking faang optimizing ad clicks because their hobby projects can't pay any bills.
Though I can also understand the child comment on your comment as well. I think that is a reasonable statement as well.
This is a really weird ethical dilemma that I still hold, as a hobby creator myself (just not at a scale of really earning money,but boy I sure would want to ), I want to earn money from it but I also want to distribute it freely, I am not sure how I can get both.
You said it yourself, this is a hobby FOSS developer. Key word hobby.
Have people stopped understanding that others do things simply because they want to? Not everything is profit-driven, even on this site.