I do feel some sympathy for Tantacrul. Imagine staking your personal reputation on the public internet on the promise that Audacity 4 would not be terrible, and then - likely for reasons you have no control over - the actual product is "hey we're building this around a store where most of the stuff for sale is AI sparkles. You wanna buy some sparkles, right?" And then you're on the hook for the community harm of trying to convince people to take it seriously. Probably after a lot of genuine effort to make something that isn't garbage.
Lot of cautionary tales to take away from that one.
Not to totally harp, of course, but this is why I've drifted to a position of intense skepticism and caution when it comes to for-profit corporate funding.
Plenty of projects think they need that money, when actually they need architectural hygeine. And if you think corpo money is the thing you need to meet those hygeine goals, you're being naive about the strings attached to those finances.
Hunger is not a valid reason to eat rat poison unless you want to die faster.