Wtf does this even mean - its like saying nobody owes me asbestos-free food. There sure is a demand for it, and certain customers find as mostly not backdoored supply chain good enough, and they wont do business in your ecosystem if you cant give them that.

This is the classic open-source problem. Open source manintainers feel like they don't owe anything for people making money with their software for free, meanwhile customers want working code, and are willing to pay for it, your software being free is a nice perk.

As much as I understand the maintainers' standpoint, history has proven the customer is always right, and the only projects that have staying power are the ones that meet the quality bar.