I think you're overreacting. Don't contribute to the project if you aren't interested.
Personally, I don't think this is needed, but I can see why people are interested in it.
Personally, I don't think this is needed, but I can see why people are interested in it.
It's not like he purposefully introduced some "painful_installation" feature, and is now asking money to make it go away.
It's not even like he unintentionally introduced some "painful_installation" feature, and is now asking money to make it go away.
What he did was what every OSS contributor does. He created some tools, added some fixes to Rails, changed some stuff, proposed some future roadmap, etc. One among MANY. People used his tools and changes and adopted them because they made their lives easier.
That doesn't mean that those changes (e.g the Bundler, a way to gather requirements) can or should also solve the general problem of easy installation of a whole and complete Rails system.
And that's what he asks money to create: an easy installer for the whole system.