Okay, but in this scenario one guy offers it for free because he helps to grow bananas as a hobby with a bunch of other guys who also help, and he doesn't need to sell the bananas to make a living, while the guy offering bananas for money grows bananas himself or just with his family for a living and so selling them is how he can afford to make more and also put food on the table. You can also have his bananas for free too, as long as you're okay with the bananas having stickers with sponsored brand names on them. I can understand not wanting to pay for something when there are free versions available, and the prices can be a bit high for some people atm, assuming they don't change in the coming days, but the guy selling bananas for money isn't forcing you to buy his bananas instead of getting the free ones from other booths, he's offering his bananas for people who are willing and able to pay for them or willing to tolerate ads on them to support him. Presumably you didn't feel the need to thank liftoff before the stuff with sync happened, so it doesn't come across like you're just thankful to liftoff in general, more like you're doing it because you're unhappy with sync.

Man, that's Ferrari. That's how they operate. You can buy lots of cars, but you can't just walk into a dealer and buy a Ferrari.

You can sit and be fucking mad at Ferrari, or just choose to say "that's an expensive thing for a dumb privilege", ... and drive an Audi instead.

I think @Laticauda@lemmy.ca has already made a good point regarding your example.

I'm not judging you or anything, just that the appreciation could have been shown without comparing it to Sync. It can come off as a bit combative, when you didn't mean it like that.