"The Funding Problem" is why you're seeing OSS fall to LLMs day after day. We never solved it. To solve it would cost an astonishing amount of money, the kind most people simply do not have given how much wealth inequality we have as a society at present.

The corps hoard.
Governments are strapped.

If you want to see OSS not fall to slop, devs need food, housing, healthcare, and safety.

OSS falling to slop is a reflection of *society*. And yes, it's upsetting to see the wrapper torn off.