This is the "lost sale fallacy." While emotionally understandable, the reality is that developers of plugins like ValhallaDSP ($50) or TDR ($free to $40) are often small teams of 1-5 people. When a megathread shares their work, they lose rent money.
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This economic barrier has given rise to a specific corner of the internet known as the This is the "lost sale fallacy