Yeah they are popular, they do a really good job of making content available that would otherwise get scattered across a dozen services if it’s even picked up at all. Yeah, the creators deserve to get something for their work but the free market will not provide a good option.

I switched to just using Docker and nginx reverse proxy. It’s more setup initially but less overhead.

I could fork ClamAV and call it OysterAV then there would be a less maintained alternative