I don't get this open reluctance of people that contribute a lot of time and work towards open source. Sounds a lot like entitlement to me.

I don't know anything about the drama you mention. I just know kitty is a fine terminal emulator I use all the time (also with tmux/byobu) and I am thankful the author created it. Calibre I also use from time to time and it works for my purpose. I am happy it exists and I can just shovel my ebooks onto my kindle.

It sounds like you used Calibre for years but still complain about it even though it's free..