Is like a big corporation now, distant from authors. A lot of fees, duties. Lastly refunds dispute are on our shoulders and so on.
Back in time was a smaller place, where you had more room to create and share with others.
But I think is inevitable when you get so big and have such huge entities (like Avada, X and Visual Composer) to “care”.
Being a one-man-band is really hard these days.