It's not that it's free to pick and to use. It's that some/most people too often associate "it's free" to be equivalent to "I don't need to care about it, like, at all".
It's that some/most people don't understand that, whatever they take, they become dependent of, for the better and for the worse (insert Marie Kondo cue here).
The interesting thing here is that there's a full new line of work for Info/OpSec opening here: ensuring that your software supply chain is not only secured, but also properly funded and supported.
That's like... common sense in so many "old" industries.