The paid component in question here is not necessary to use Iroh, though. You can have elaborate Iroh-based projects entirely based on the OSS components without losing features and without paying anything. There are public relays and self-hosted relays, anything else is the concern of your application(s).
As for anything being a "goal"? They do have dev salaries to pay and they offer managed control planes with SLAs or consultations with the core devs to accomplish that.
As for anything being a "goal"? They do have dev salaries to pay and they offer managed control planes with SLAs or consultations with the core devs to accomplish that.