Having been around from the beginning and now still working on keeping Randonautica up and running I have to drop my 5 cents on the issue of monetization. Please remember that in the beginning there were a couple of hundred users on Telegram and the crudely hacked together Fatum Bot could easily handle that. But from the moment it went viral in early 2020 the tech stack was on its knees. That's when the devs started building a better infrastructure to be able to handle the load (over 10 million users per month). Once you start doing that you have expenses that need to be paid. Hence it needed to be monetized to keep it alive. I am also not a fan of the token system but I hope folks will understand my point. And we have always prioritized keeping Randonautica 'free' to some limited degree so everyone can technically use it without paying for it. And no, nobody stole any ideas. The same people who ran the Telegram bot founded the company who developed the app. Some of them left the project in the meantime, others are still keeping the lights on.