How did you arrive at this take when the original code and the PR aren’t related to the Raspberry Pi foundation at all? This is a community contribution, not something the Raspberry Pi foundation tried to push throug.

> At no point do I see the RPi foundation saying "Hey, we'll allocate programmers and resources to maintain this code for our chip."

They didn’t write this code, and this isn’t what PlatformIO is asking for. PlatformIO wanted the Raspberry Pi foundation to pay substantial recurring fees so PlatformIO could merge this PR by someone else.

> Don't like it? Shut your piehole and roll up your sleeves. Quit bitching, fork the PlatformIO stuff and do the work yourself.

That’s quite literally what they did. This was developed by someone in a fork. That person didn’t even submit this PR. None of the people involved appear to be related to the Raspberry Pi foundation, but PlatformIO tried to bill Raspberry Pi for it anyway.