The problem is for over a decade companies keep doing enshittification tactics and it’s destroyed trust.

Plus there’s been a lot of public to private migrations like minio and others that feel like total rug pulls.

I am with you that the birthday field is blown way out of proportion, but I’m also positive that once that’s enforced governments will use this to restrict whatever they don’t like arbitrarily (see LGBTQ book bans).

Trust in open source devs is definitely down. There was that book lore app drama just a couple weeks ago because the dev used AI, and the community didn’t like AI (which escalated poorly).

Nobody really cared how the open source sausage was made, but now it’s the most important thing to people.