None of these things are free my friend. They probably represent tens of billions of dollars in development over years, decades in some cases.
You are missing the point entirely. Let's just take one: LibreOffice. This was a FOSS project from the very start. It is intended to be used as you use it. Even then, bitching about functionality and features would be entitled. In that case, if you don't like it, stop using it or participate in the development...for free, donating your time.
ChatGPT is NOT a free product. Yes, they have a free tier. And that's fantastic. We've all used it. But this is not a FOSS company. Bitching about their free tier isn't right. Again, that's being entitled. Why do they owe you more than they are giving you? They do not. If you want more, pay for it.
Or, you could buy a bunch of powerful computers and run an open weights model on your own hardware and have free intelligence to use as much as you want.
Oh, wait, that wouldn't be free, would it? You'd have to pay thousands for the hardware.
OK, wait, how about you do that and I use your self-hosted LLM's for free and then bitch about the lack of performance.
Yup. Entitlement. Always a reason for other people to owe the entitled and never a reason for the entitled to owe them anything. And this goes way beyond what we are talking about here, far and wide.
> I'm very glad most good software creators I've come across do not have your mindset.
Here's something else you do not understand. FOSS isn't free to create, not even close. Take something like Linux. I would be comfortable estimating that Linux has probably a development cost in the one-hundred billion dollar range. I would not be surprised if was way more than that. The massive number of people who worked on Linux over the decades have lives, families, homes, responsibilities, etc. The only way Linux happened is because they are otherwise employed and donate their time (with is fantastic, I did a lot of of that when I was younger, had time and less responsibilities) or someone is explicitly paying for them to work on Linux because of the benefits they might derive from it. The only "free" part about FOSS is that users of the software don't pay for it. Don't confuse that with all software having to function this way. Like I said, OpenAI is a business. It isn't your personal charity. If you want more, pay for it.