I'd take open-source software over proprietary software any day unless there's a big feature gap. But I also acknowledge that it's his software to build and no one is entitled to it.
And let's be honest: open sourcing something has lots of drawbacks as well. Read the stories from maintainers getting demands or even threats... To me it's surreal but there's 100% people out there who feel so entitled.
Yooo this reminds me that I want a Lemmy client that can rewrite Twitter urls to nitter urls