You could always go work somewhere full time for free to help the cause of "proper free software". Or is entitlement to the work of others for free a one way street where you get it for free and expect others to pay you for your labor? I'm sure you can put a sign out for donations or live off the fat of the land.

100% this.

I was a huge Gemini fan, and I think the model itself is still very good. But Antigravity is absolutely horrible. It routinely writes broken code and then ends up in a short term cycle of reverting and re-implementing.

It's so bad that I don't use it for writing code and certainly wouldn't even bother trying to get it to refactor anything. It's been relegated it to analysis and planning. It is excellent there.

I can't be the only one who find this a little inexplicable that a company with Google's resources is fumbling this so badly.

or that the company that invented transformers is fumbling this so badly

many of their best people left during the SaaS boom cycle in the 20'oughts, current leadership is abysmal

there is also that well known promotion incentive misalignment at big g