I see it more as warriness than hatred. Whether or not they act “good” now, they have a near monopoly. It has a lot of potential to go bad for us consumers, even if the probability might be low. Murphy’s law apply: if it can go wrong it will, someday.

Optional is my favorite example to give, at this point most people have internalized how to use its map function and how it works

Not sure if they are a large part of framework’s consumers, or just very vocal in that thread.

Tbf I don’t know much about the Hyprland history. The point raised by the OP on the forum links to tweets by both framework and Hyprland accounts saying framework became a “gold tier sponsor” of hyprland. It’s fair to assume that involves a donation.

Don’t cherrypick a single issue raised by the OP to pretend the whole discussion is about that, please