In my opinion there’s a way out of this misery.

A) Establishing a potent counterpart. That could just be done by companies, hiring and paying full time devs to boost open projects like freecad. B) Redefine productiveness. If you have fast output at the beginning, but end in slavery with your intellectual portfolio (means: need to pay those rediculous license fees for your GBs of model data, because it’s in a propiatory format) you’re screwed.

Regain ownership of your models.