I recall donationware being claimed to only provide a trickle amount - usually due to people being greedy and wanting to keep as much money as possible. Perhaps that was just that one person, but it’s still unreliable income source for the Dos shareware era.

Asking for donations doesn’t even solve the symptom of important software needing a team to scrounge funding. No publicly-important infrastructure should require begging.

WWJD: Love thy brother. Nuke thy neighbor.

Not only that, but nuke the region that was the home to Jesus.