In reply to Neo.

Besides all the direct questions asking for my opinion, you seem to have missed the point. The car analogy does not apply, because... you pay for the car! In WordPress commercial plugins, as stated time after time by the community, the code is or should be GPL as derivative work, an you pay for the support.

So the question is: if a car maker decided to give its cars for free, but charge yearly fees for upgrades and support (including, of course, security reviews), do you really think it is fair that paying and not paying drivers get the same service in the event of a problem that could collapse support locations? The car was free, you got it and could change the engine yourself, we did our best to make it perfect at that time and we explicitly told you that our support required an annual fee.

If so, how do you plan to pay for the workers?

I am not against publishing an errata with a patch that you can apply yourself, do not get me wrong. But that is all.