Ive made similar points to the maintainers. It is what it is at this point.
But, honestly, to the people who actually understand, like and use Datastar, none of this matters. Most of the outrage is performative, at best - as can be seen by the pathetically superficial quality of the vast majority of criticisms in threads like this.
Frankly, if people can't/won't see that the devs are very clearly not VC rugpull assholes, and that the vast majority of the functionality is available for free, then they're probably also the sorts of people who aren't a good fit for something that is doing a great rethink of web development. The devs very explicitly are not trying to get rich (nor can they, due to the 501c3!) nor do they want this to be something massive - they're building it for their own needs, first and foremost, and for those who understand that vision.
But, honestly, to the people who actually understand, like and use Datastar, none of this matters. Most of the outrage is performative, at best - as can be seen by the pathetically superficial quality of the vast majority of criticisms in threads like this.
Frankly, if people can't/won't see that the devs are very clearly not VC rugpull assholes, and that the vast majority of the functionality is available for free, then they're probably also the sorts of people who aren't a good fit for something that is doing a great rethink of web development. The devs very explicitly are not trying to get rich (nor can they, due to the 501c3!) nor do they want this to be something massive - they're building it for their own needs, first and foremost, and for those who understand that vision.