One lesson from this is to not contribute a 'major feature' to an open source project without a signal that it would actually be accepted. Even if the feature doesn't conflict with enterprise/monetisation, the feature could just be against the goals of ideals of the maintainers, of whom the project is up to.
Open source is not a mandate that the maintainers must accept every contribution. The author should consider why they don't want to maintain a fork, and whether that's the same reason why this PR was rejected in favor of an enterprise feature.
Open source is not a mandate that the maintainers must accept every contribution. The author should consider why they don't want to maintain a fork, and whether that's the same reason why this PR was rejected in favor of an enterprise feature.