Incredible. They throw some indie-sounding buzzwords out and that's enough to make the business model unimpeachable?
Over the past few decades we've seen many cynical capitalists riding the wave of "peer to peer open source" for personal gain. It's absolutely within scope to discuss how a company's business model may affect their ability to deliver on the supposed mission.
I imagine the person responding to my initial comment just didn't realize it was a VC-backed business rather than a regular FOSS project. The repo readme doesn't seem to indicate otherwise, so I can see why they'd have gotten that impression.
Over the past few decades we've seen many cynical capitalists riding the wave of "peer to peer open source" for personal gain. It's absolutely within scope to discuss how a company's business model may affect their ability to deliver on the supposed mission.