[LightFog]

I don’t understand the proposed reality they (we) should live in.

They are trying to advocate for software that doesn’t hurt its users in a sea of enshittifaction.

They should stop because corporations produce powerful software?

[pjmlp]

It isn't a matter of proposed reality, rather the fact that somehow bills have to be paid, and all key FOSS projects happen to one way or the other, have developers paid by all big corps that people love to hate.

[sham1]

While this is of course true, there's nothing wrong with lamenting this state of affairs. In an ideal world, this wouldn't be the case, but since it is you might as well do better personally.