Comment by dudeinhawaii

That is one take and certainly possible and negative but I think people create libraries for different reasons.

There are people who will use AI (out of their own pocket for trivial costs) to build a library and maintain it simply out of the passion, ego, and perhaps some technical clout.

That's the same with OSS libraries in-general. Some are maintained at-cost, others are run like a business where the founders try to break even.