I wouldn't be surprised if they've put themselves on the radar of Harvard Business Review for having the ball in their court and somehow phenomenally fumbling it at every opportunity
https://www.reddit.com/r/RelayForReddit/comments/147152b/upd...
> There's no possibility to continue the free version of Relay; a monthly subscription price of $3 (or less) might be achievable.
And of that $3 the Developer says in that thread:
> Yes there should be a good amount in there for myself.
If 3rd party apps are so beloved, then $3/month to support a developer doing good work should not be a issue.
There's the aphorism that when you're using/buying a thing, it's always a relationship between you and other humans somewhere in the chain.
That has to be given hygiene and deference. Hygiene in keeping things healthy and in balance and deference in not trying to calcify some lording hierarchy.
If you bust either, your customers/users/whatever will be shopping around. There's other ways to fail but if you look at the most liked companies, you can basically rename that a list of companies that fuck up hygiene and deference the least.
See for yourself https://www.axios.com/2023/05/23/corporate-brands-reputation...