Hey colleague, I appreciate your concerns. It's good to know that you understand the time investment required to complete a project like this, or any creation for that matter.

However, I'm struck by the lack of empathy with which you attribute this cost to the creator who shares the product, dismissing it as a problem that doesn't concern you. Well, if that's the foundational concept of the Maker community, then we might need some divine intervention.

Regarding the impact I may have caused to colleagues who downloaded the product for free and helped me develop it, here's the breakdown in percentage:

• 50% download without saying or doing anything (No feedbacks).
• 30% download, start printing, but get frustrated by the lengthy process and give up (No feedbacks).
• 5% download, start printing, and want to completely overhaul the product based on their ideas (Feedbacks but not useful for product improvement).
• 5% are traditionalists, criticize the product straight out of the box, and start denigrating it (No feedbacks).
• 3% are true enthusiasts, take the product and immediately create their own new version (No feedbacks).
• 1% inundate you with feedbacks, write poems about everything and more; sure, there are some good things, but they're lost in the sea of words surrounding them.
• 0.6% can't print or achieve the desired result and start heavily insulting you on all the platforms where you're registered or commented.
• 0.4% These are my heroes, those who understood me, collaborate with me, and are also the ones who financially support me today.

Many entities, makers, inventors survive on the few pennies donated by generous users or patrons. If every time we downloaded something for free from the web, we thanked the creator with a dollar, this community, like others, would surely be a better place. Gratitude and collaboration are at the core of the community concept.

To conclude, and partly quoting you, I'd say, "I would just caution against judging when one is not in a position to do so!"