> The sustainability problem nobody talks about

What rock are you living under? The funding problem is constantly discussed.

> README badges and funding links — almost no one reads them.

So you added a message to the console log. Right. If only someone could predict how that was going to go. (Actually, 14 new users is higher than I expected.)

Anyways, heuristically the whole thing sets off my AI senses so I've probably wasted my time reading. Oh well.