Sure. But the costs for implementing such a thing are certainly above simply using the tools on the platform on which the dev has decided to release their work. If they disagree, don't release it there.
This idea that the consumer should do something additional besides giving you money is a nonstarter.
But remember: the design and initial implementation of the internet was paid for by the populace. It is supposed to be filled with cool and useful, free stuff.
Corporate interests and "web 2.0" have turned it into a weird hellscape of misinformation and targeted advertising. It was not designed for it.
It's the walled garden thing that gets me. At some point, people got complacent. I'm 100% confident that there is an entire swath of the population which has never considered that Discord is a corporate entity with corporate interests. We made open standards for a reason.
Because they're underwhelming, on the whole.
The Dems won't win anything again until the party is massively restructured. Moving to the center has failed again and again and again.
You know what the other side is also doing? Moving rightward.