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Personally, yeah.
To me, it's a matter of: It is not open-source, so if the FUTO company starts enshittifying it, then no one's going to fork it to undo that, because no one wants that proprietary license on their project, whether they intend to distribute it commercially or not.
Obviously, I could just switch to a different keyboard app, if that happens, but in my experience, it also means that no one has their eyeballs on the source code to notice them enshittifying and they're just generally more likely to sneak shit in, because they know no one's going to fork.
But I'm also not either a fan of open-source software when it's developed by a company, for similar reasons. For example, Google puts so much dev capacity into Android and has the infrastructure to uniquely benefit from it, so at best you'll get soft-forks. No one can afford to do a proper hard-fork and fix the permission system, for example.
Good point that the license matters when it comes to ability or willingness to fork by the community in the event of enshittification.