> or give out a lot of grants to individual people who are just maintaining open source projects or making/maintaining something similar that many people benefit from but the value would be lost if one were to try to make money off of it.
There is definitely a lot of missed opportunity in not supporting some open source projects that provide general public benefit.
Some of those products would compete with parts of the services Google and co offer.
I don't understand the duplication of alerting with Grafana/Alertmanager. Is it not better to keep all alert configuration central in prometheus alerting rules ?