>maybe the community could chip in to buy the authors a couple of YubiHSM

There's no community, the users of axios are devs that looked at stackoverflow for "how to download a file in javascript", they barely know or care what axios is.

Now the users of axios are devs that ask Claude Code or Codex to scrape a website or make a dashboard, they don't even know about the word axios.

I personally had to delete axios a couple of time from my codebase when working with junior devs.