Sadly, I am a writer, not a coder.

I have tried, but it never really stuck for me.

I can plan things out, know how they will work, but actually programming it is very unlikely.

There are two problems there:

One is that not all open source developers accept payment, this is accurate, we have come across some that refuse to be paid for their work and not everone has the money to pay for it.

This forces, we believe, people back into the freemium etc model. So really there don't seem to be a lot of good solutions here, which seems to go against the original post.

Either folks somehow pool together to have enough resources to pay open source devs, we put up with whatever they decide to do, we create a new movement focused more around what the community wants or we go back to corporations, most will probably choose the latter as there's less tension there.

Something to think on.

Correct, it is jaded. We have watched a lot of devs become worse and worse over time, ignore perfectly reasonable and useful requests or instead of implementing an already existing solution to a problem find workaround to that problem instead which then goes on to not work forever.

So, if open source developers do not want to do the work, which is fair then either we have to create a new movement that is more community driven, or go back to corporations which the latter at least seems like not a great situation to be in.

Sure, but then we only have corporations left to turn to if open source devs don't wish to do what is best for users.

Kind of goes against the point of the original post.

We've thought about it before, might just do it, but can't pay much.

Sure, however, this apart from paying them goes against the original post then, doesn't it?

Either we can be paying customers of a corporation and hopefully get what we want by leveraging social pressure or we have to put up with whatever open source devs decide, they might not even accept payment.

A pretty dire situation to be in.

Yeah, agreed.

okidoke, fair enough

Sure but the same could be said and often is said for open source projects.

Open source devs often have a particular goal or vision in mind and will ignore any attempts to give the users what they actually want, either through issues or pull requests.

We've seen it so many times in open source projects, they love having that power over others and become mini dictators.

This is also true for open source software though, a lot of open source devs are mini dictators ruling over their own fiefdoms with an iron fist and they don't care what the users, many of which have no coding ability, need or want.

Even those that do have some coding ability will be ignored if they try to change things upstream that the main devs don't agree with, even if most users would welcome such a change.

Kind of good in a way. It was always colonialism for tech companies to be using it anyway, when it wasn't meant for them.

Yet another reason for me to never play this game. It's full of contextless characters, appropriated and stolen dances/animations, microtransactions and now this rubbish.