The actual reason of this friction is that essentially, FOSS developers are working for free.
FOSS devs and maintainers don't have _any_ monetary incentives to continue working on a project unless it helps them getting their desired job.
Yeah, you may say some devs have so much passion about their software that they are willing to donate their time for free. But the interest may dwindle after a couple of months and years and that's when the whole thing becomes somehow a burden.
It may not even come down to that. One bad morning + constant pings of "any updates yet" by an entitled user may trip the dev off for good.
FOSS devs and maintainers don't have _any_ monetary incentives to continue working on a project unless it helps them getting their desired job.
Yeah, you may say some devs have so much passion about their software that they are willing to donate their time for free. But the interest may dwindle after a couple of months and years and that's when the whole thing becomes somehow a burden.
It may not even come down to that. One bad morning + constant pings of "any updates yet" by an entitled user may trip the dev off for good.