Companies pay for it. And except for their DERP servers, free users don't cost them much.

Yes, but it tunnels arbitrary IP packets encapsulated in UDP.

So, the response is here. Without a closer look I can't say what's really going on - although I lean toward believing that Core is going in the right direction - but there still seem to be some orange flags.

Unfortunate. I'll wait some days for the response, but it better be a good one.

This behavior from Core may be par for the course, but I can already buy watches from companies that have values only for marketing. It's a small niche, and being nice would not cost much.

And they already died once, without having a proper off-ramp for their users - for now I don't trust them to exist in another two years. (I'm not really sure they even are in this for the long term - talk is cheap.)