This post feels a bit overly sympathetic to what amounts to a rug pull on the part of the business.

I don’t think anyone argues that charging for this thing is unfair, the act of offering it for free to acquire users then rug pulling to charge for it is the gross thing here. You can argue that people should have planned for this kind of thing and that it’s a risk you take with FOSS, but there were other, less rug-pull-ey approaches that could have been taken here. It just so happens that they might have affected growth numbers and subsequently made the company less money