This is pretty predictable at this point. VC-backed open source with a single vendor always ends up here eventually. The operational tradeoff was always MinIO being dead simple versus Ceph being complex but foundation-governed. Turns out "easy to set up" doesn't matter much when you wake up to a repo going dark. The real lesson is funding model matters more than license. If there's no sustainable path that doesn't involve closing the source, you're just on a longer timeline to the same outcome.