you have to consider the hardware and systems they have to replace, repair, and upgrade over the past few years too.
all in the video i've linked. al that's left is 1k-1.5k per dev as i've understand.
like odes say a janitor pay not a dev pay.
you barely survive with this if you're alone. so yeah it's difficult for them.
don't misunderstand i'm not criticism them, but i need to stay objective. Yeah they need more money, but i' won't and can't helping them more than i do actually. they need todo their own choice, marketing is important you can't just rely only on ppl to spread the word.
you need to advertise that your project exist that your project advance ect... just look at the post here half of the post are ppl who don't know a thing of what happen here, but a lot are still interested by the project because it look promising.
i'm on the same financial situation. well actually a bit worse. i perfectly understand on what position they are.
also you have a ignore command if you click on a profile, really useful (aka don't bowser anwser to some ppl who are just here to troll and spite their venom =)