Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism

It's not possible to rug pull an open-source project by just switching new work to a different license. The real issue with open-source is that we don't live in a utopia where you can publish all of your work for free and still live a quality of life comparable to working at an average developer job, and yet so many non-maintainers somehow feel they are owed future labor. Maintainers come and go. Without sponsorship, the half life on maintainers is going to be relatively short, and more developers are going to be pushed to publishing less permissively.

I agree. Its an incentives issue if I am being honest. If I ever generate software, I would also prefer to open source it but there are mechanisms where either cloud providers or anybody can take my changes and earn over them without me getting anything in return...

I mean, it is technically what it means to have a foss license but I just can't shake the feeling that we as a society are feeling so entitled that people are advocating against sspl licenses or etc. when I do think that if you are a dev and you wish to work on foss full time then something like sspl might be good in that regards.

Open source Contributors just don't get paid for the work they are doing. They are sadly doing free labour. I feel like I personally might start coding stuff in sspl or maybe just source available licenses if they get more favourable. The whole terminology behind source available licenses is kinda weird in the sense that basically a single clause which is meant to stop big cloud providers from selling your service that you built can make something like agpl foss and sspl not foss/source available.