Just because they were gracious enough to change their mind and talk about it in public doesn't make it universally OK.

Second, the point of Pi as a bare-bones BUT extensible harness is just that - a bare-bones harness, that can get anything one wants. Make that "thing" easy to get. Besides, bloat is bloat and every bloat is someone's must-have and vice versa.

I had also read somewhere that they have launched (already? not sure) their hosted model infra or something like OpenRouter (not sure). Nothing wrong with running a paying business along with a FOSS project but that's also there.