It's not about ideology per se—the dark humor in my mind is that you're not just paying for software you run yourself, you're paying to not be able to modify it. There's a reason why that sort of arrangement is dying and SaaS is stronger than ever—paying to access a server at least makes more sense as a transaction, even if it is just about as economically inefficient.
A hard lesson many have come to learn when there are bills to pay, and coffee priced donations hardly make it.