That's pretty disappointing. I personally haven't used much beyond vault (I've used but not enjoyed or built anything on terraform), but this is pretty diametrically opposed to what I appreciated most about hashicorp products. Heck, I've even contributed a chunk of the code I use the most from vault (Cert management) and now I'm going to have to reevaluate whether I can attempt to use that service for customers going forward, and whether I will contribute ever again.
It definitely feels like the whole era of VC drying up is bringing out the worst possible future for some of these non GPL/similar licenses. Which is unfortunate for any of us who have deliberately learned only OSS and operations around it, giving back the whole time, with dreams of building services that leverage that knowledge someday as a chance to be our own boss while also utilizing and giving back to the OSS that got us this far.
It definitely feels like the whole era of VC drying up is bringing out the worst possible future for some of these non GPL/similar licenses. Which is unfortunate for any of us who have deliberately learned only OSS and operations around it, giving back the whole time, with dreams of building services that leverage that knowledge someday as a chance to be our own boss while also utilizing and giving back to the OSS that got us this far.