Great read and points to consider.

In a similar, yet different, set of circumstances, what are reasonable expectations when you're an indie developer? And instead of it being an OSS Homebrew solution, it is an OSS library on GitHub that accepts sponsoring (and you've sponsored them before, simply because you get value from the library and want to show your gratitude)?

It's easy to hate on the big tech corp who doesn't pay for what they use, but what about the indie dev (and especially if they have paid)?