I'm lucky enough to be employed full time to work on open source, but I still build my own OSS in my own time because it scratches a different itch. My work on Astro is fun, but it's my job, with Linear tickets and standups and 1:1s and quarterly planning. My own OSS is where I build whatever fun stuff I feel like without pressure. It has enough users that I do get issues, but not too many that they're overwhelming. I think the very fact that I have a job in OSS makes it easier for me to dismiss the entitled users who come to my personal projects demanding support. I build that for fun, and I owe you nothing.