I feel it’s good and bad at the same time.

Good that you will have an alternative to the play store.

Bad because it erodes trust when money starts being the main motivator to do things.

I think paid apps are a good idea, in-app payments arent

Where do they say they’re considering ads in app? Or you mean with developers including ads in their apps, not in f-droid?

Anyway, I am strongly in support of donationware as the model for compensation of developers. It allows all users to pay what they can whilst not discriminating against those who can’t pay.

There’s a lot of donationware that receives very substantial donations, and have more money than they would have had had they charged a small flat fee per user. I would never buy software except video games (just because there isn’t a particularly expansive foss game suite and pirated games don’t automatically update), but I have donated substantially more to foss projects than they could ever charge for their software.

I know free here means freedom not gratis, but I think paywalling software in any way is discriminatory and contrary to promotion of the commons, which is a big part of why I support foss.

Isnt the only reason to use f-droid foss apps? Like, if you want shitty apps with ADS and subscriptions, you might as well just use aurora store

Good. Developers should be paid for their work.