You’re right. Unfortunately, open-source has proven time and time again to be unsustainable and burn maintainers out
That’s a good reason for people to take the money they would have spent buying a proprietary solution and instead donate that money to an open source project. For me it’s not always about the cost, but what I get out of it. I’d rather the money go to the community and better it.
I use Jellyfin for music mostly and it struggles with metadata. For example, if a song has two artists on it and I edit to correct it, it won’t update correctly and I’ll edit up with the artist “Artist A; Artist B”.
Oh that would be nice. I would use that to just go into the database and fix all my broken music metadata which I can’t see to fix any other way.