But there was no intellectual excercise. Only a complaint with no proposal.

You want someone to do something for you for some other reason than that they owe you.

They already are doing something for you that they don't owe you. They are writing software that you benefit from. You just want them (or somebody) to do something else that they don't owe you.

They aren't, because they don't owe you and it's not something they want to do for fun, and so since the problem is they don't owe you, you wish to set aside words like "owe".

Well sure. Looks like you found the problem and the solution alright. Why didn't anyone else think of that?