No, the emphasis there wasn’t on the free part, that is just an additional factor… (and yes… regardless of any idealistical views of the “old school hacker” you may harbor… it is a factor in a world where not even the sun comes up for free anymore…) People spending time on creating things for free does imo. hold more and more value as we evolve and everybody wants to be paid for their “time”.

However the emphasis here was on the fact that people are very quick to “sacrifice” things that don’t matter to them.

Criticism would be valid had Barnes had even the slightest experience with using these mods, but criticizing something you never tried… is not really valid in my opinion.