How is you using someone else's open source package "rewarding" them?
I think that when someone provides an open source project they are doing everyone a favour. We then have a choice not to use it. But using their free thing is certainly not doing them a favour unless we are somehow contributing back.
Yo, you wanna chillout with flinging the accusations? Every single one of your comments in this whole thread is either bullheaded negative or a subtle suggestion that Next.js is some marketing conspiracy without its own merit.
If you don't like Next or don't see its usefulness thats fine, but 30,000 stars on Github and pretty varied list[1] of companies seems to suggest that some people do find it useful.
I am not affiliated with Zeit or Next.js in any particular way. Just a happy user of Next and appreciative of all the hard work put into it.
I think that when someone provides an open source project they are doing everyone a favour. We then have a choice not to use it. But using their free thing is certainly not doing them a favour unless we are somehow contributing back.