I think it's because Millenials are starting to think of their retirement. A life of traveling in a rented house with rented income and not a care in the world can't last forever.
I doubt any of the people making these decisions are housing insecure. What’s really changing is that the culture around open source had a lot of inertia from the era where most people ran it on their own servers and maintainers could make money selling support or consulting around that, but now a ton of usage has shifted to cloud providers who are not obligated to share changes with the community or compensate the original developers. People have been talking about that for ages but it was easy to ignore the issue when VC money was flying around to give companies valuations far greater than their revenues would support. What we’re seeing now has been developing for a long time and it’s going to come to a head nor that the finance people are expecting hard revenue.
