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I'm curious about when open source coders transition from enjoying sharing their product to feeling obligated to support their product to wanting some form of monetization when supporting their product becomes a job. Is it normally companies causing this or unrealistic expectations?

I know myself, when I put something in open source I feel a responsibility to maintain it for no reasonable reason.

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It usually happens after a series of poor life choices lead the developer down a path of financial destitution. They spend their personal time curating PRs to fix typos or expand their CI matrix to support N x M combinations of runtimes and cpu archs. Then one day they lose their day job, realize they have no savings, and that none of their FOSS contributions will help pay their rent.

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