

Monetary needs and all that. If it’s a startup with VC then there is either not enough people paying or not enough private users supporting by other means like bug fixing, support, etc. Or greed by VC. But in general, what do we expect where the time comes from people spend on coding for us? See openssl that is essential and was about to loose its main dev. Pay or donate or contribute. Preferably to a non VC project.
Regarding the spinning wheel If accessed with a browser over http you never get through but the clients on desktop and mobile worked with http. At least until a few weeks ago. That forced me to get it working with a reverse proxy. Neither traefik nor npm did the trick and now I have a beautiful pangolin instance running on my vps. That software is amazing so far.