Dude, you have no idea what are you talking about. There is nothing to disagree about here because in the end, addons are INTELECTUAL PROPERTY of their authors.
So I can charge for my addon regardless if blizzard likes it or not. The ONLY thing they can do about is to block the addon within game.
NOBODY has the right to distribute other people intellectual property (DMCA), unless the license permits it.
In fact "stealing database" from cursforge is copyright infringement itself. Which is why the change should have been implemented long time ago. So that karens won't feel entitled to other people work.
The amount of mental gymnastics here is staggering.
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Time has already told us, people don't give a shit about stuff being free, they want software that WORKS. Hence loonix didn't move from their 1% spot in years. The only good thing about what came from it is some software that managed to be good despite being free, git is one example of that.
No they dont but that is besides the point. Interface sucking doesnt have anything to do with payouts.
It has been already trivialized, its called cursforge app.