I'm not familiar with any particularly egregious examples, but I don't find "developer wants to sell software" all that outrageous.
I’m also not against selling software on principle. Downgrading a free piece of software into a demo with an auto-update feels shady, however.
[0] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=eamodio....
"I made something people seem to like, hopefully it can help feed my family" sounds more like a wonderful success story rather than shady (depending on target audience of course but that's the part I'd like to understand better rather than make assumptions)
This also doesn't seem to come under "nagging" for me. To me, that'd be something like, a popup while using or trying to click through a commit reference (which would almost certainly earn it an instant uninstall).
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I haven’t used it and only heard of it last week, but the extension’s page you linked to seems decent enough for me to try it out.