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You are overlooking a very simple fact in your comment. Cerbos is open source and has an Apache2 license. Therefore most of your points are irrelevant:

  * No one needs to pay
  * No need for a company to be around for the next 100 years.

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What I am not overlooking is that they as a company and in this comment have an implicit bias against Dev's rolling their own auth since their business model is based on them not doing that. The most critical point that I raise that is not irrelevant is they are prone to making blanket statements and falling into absolutes with "Never ever do this..." and "This is way too hard for you..." even though there are a wide array of diverse scenarios and use cases in web dev. And even if it is open source, a lot of enterprise won't touch it if there's not a support plan, or at least a lot of companies would not be willing to fork and maintain a large open source lib they had little dev involvement with. So their death as a company would essentially equal EOL for a good number of clients regardless.

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