It’s up to them how they develop their completely free software. If you’re not happy with it and can’t stop using it, you can fork it. If you can’t do it yourself, you pay someone else to. If it suddenly seems like paying for 50% of your FOSS is too much, then consider that the FOSS devs themselves pay for most of it with their largely uncompensated free time and probably want to have a bit more of said free time back.
It’s up to them how they develop their completely free software. If you’re not happy with it and can’t stop using it, you can fork it. If you can’t do it yourself, you pay someone else to. If it suddenly seems like paying for 50% of your FOSS is too much, then consider that the FOSS devs themselves pay for most of it with their largely uncompensated free time and probably want to have a bit more of said free time back.
How do they make money? Like they’re consultants and make plenty of money and then spend some free time maintaining OSS projects?
Usually they’re just regular software engineers who spend some of their free time on FOSS. Very few projects earn enough in donations to pay salaries.