On my side, I feel disappointed on two different counts.

- Obviously, when your selling point against competitor and alternative services was that you were Open Source, and you do a rug pull once you got enough traction, that is not great.

- But also they also switched of target. The big added value of Minio initially is that it was totally easy to run, targeting the possibility to have an s3 server running in a minute, on single instances and so... That was the perfect solution for rapid tests, local setups and automatic testing. Then, again once they started to get enough traction, they didn't just move to add more "scaling" solutions to Minio, but they kind of twisted it completely to be a complex deployment scalable solution like any other one that you find in the market. Without that much added value on that count to be honest.