There are countless free-to-use, well-maintained packages and dev tools available to the open-source development community. In contrast, there is almost a complete lack of free-to-use cloud applications and services available to end-users. They are always required to pay upfront, subscribe, or give away their data and attention.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.ipfs.io/2022-02-22-functionland/