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It didn't help that at some point on of the main distribution points for FOSS shipped archives stuffed with malware that the authors had no idea about.

Yeah, I used to place some trust in programs under certain licenses, or downloaded from that place. Now the license is a hard requirement and so is not being from that place.

Do you mean Sourceforge, Softonic or both?

Looking at you, uTorrent. It went from the most easily recommendable torrent client to an utter piece of garbage overnight.

I'm looking at you Whatsapp. The founders clearly lied in the manifesto and sold their soul to Facebook which Zuckerberg was more than happy to take advantage of.