Didn't bun/oven recently get into hot water for explicitly recruiting for employees willing to work unpaid overtime and invest founder-level passion into the project without anywhere near comparable compensation/ownership and then making a big stink when former employees of similar bootstrapped tech startups called them out for it?

I was pretty excited when I saw the initial release but that entire ordeal torpedoed my interest. If you're a startup and looking for someone to dedicate their life to you, you're looking for a co-founder, not a salaried employee. We've seen what happens to infrastructure startups with zealous employees with npm Inc, we don't need a repeat of that.

EDIT: I was trying to find the original tweets by the company but it looks like there are only quote-retweets talking about it left as the originals have been deleted.