faker and colors aren’t exactly high value libraries. They’re widely used but only because they’re easy to import and free. I think that’s part of the problem.
The author of the packages wants to use the fact that there are so many downloads to justify their position that they should pay him. The only reason the downloads exist was because he gave it away free.
If the author had started by charging a license fee, they would have close to 0 downloads. Someone else would have made a library to wrap strings in ansi-escape characters and pull random values out of data packages assembled by the Perl community.
The author does seem to be having some sort of mental health crisis at the moment. I hope they get the help they need.
