Basically, it’s a cognitive nuke.

Okay, this piece of software is worth $5/mo to me. But it’s basically just a wrapper around this library, so I guess most of it should go to the base library? But the wrapper’s author is very active in the development of the library, so that swings it back in their favor.

But none of this would be possible without Framework X, so maybe that deserves a big chunk. But most of the contributors to that are for-profit companies that just wanna leverage OSS for free patches.

Oh and look at that, there’s a milestone issue in the wrapper’s issue tracker saying they wanna switch frameworks. Oh, and another issue asking if the project is dead because it’s just dependabot merges recently.