No offense taken. Everybody prefers something free but free is not a sustainable business model.
Even witness nodes as support to subsidize free platforms are expensive to operate and that without guarantee that the dev/witness ranks high enough to actually make up for the operational cost of the witness node.
Unless you are Google or Facebook and sell against user data free is not sustainable. Ample of examples abound about that, ever more on Steem too.
Support yo devs if you love their “free” platforms that much.