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This tweet garnered a decent amount of attention (at least within OSS circles on Twitter) at the end of last year:
What a joke of Open Source project is aws-amplify...
Feb 2021, I open a PR to aws-amplify/amplify-js, which I will never use, to fix a misusage of the History API that breaks any app relying on history state. It's a ONE line fix.
8 months later, 1st reply from one of theβ¦ β Eduardo.πππ (@posva)December 24, 2023
It called out something that I've thought about a decent amount of the past few months, open source software projects owned and run by companies are ironically less sturdy than individual or collective run open source software projects.
To fully understand, we need to get a better overall view of the dynamics of a company open sourcing a project. Often there are a variety of internal pressures (developers wanting to open source to showcase a solution, teams wanting to prioritize feature work over open source maintenance, leadership looking for popularity), these all mix together to result in what feels like a worse overall product.