Competitors and freeloaders, okay. How about all the people that never got paid to help build the ecosystem around TF? Should they be fine with this?

Who knows? No answer given today is future proof.

Best advice I can give is not to use Hashicorp products as the basis of any offering ever. Simply don't even consider them.

I've helped companies evaluate TF Cloud few times and not a single time they could be convinced to adopt it.

I've also interviewed dozens of SREs and zero had experience with TF Cloud.