How does getting paid change things? Many big tech companies "sponsor" OSS in this way and they have project backlogs bigger than the allowed limit on GitHub. https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/9678
Considering many companies have contacts ranging from millions to hundreds of millions with Microsoft, and developer tools are a major selling point for the ecosystem, it's certainly reasonable to be upset that when your organization can't depend on them. It makes planning a nightmare - it may take a month or 5 years to deliver your feature, depending on when the bugs get fixed.