I'm of a mind to agree with GP, but I also agree that lack of funding and motivation will kill the project.

Unfortunately, to me this just means the project will probably die. If the author is feeling burnt out and losing money on it, I don't think trying to pivot to a commercial license will help, since as others have mentioned, I don't think many businesses rely on mold specifically, and since the performance gap isn't astronomical, many companies will just drop in lld and be done with it.

At least, that seems likely to me. I guess we might find out?