The same story again and again...

In the meantime, I am volunteering for a non-profit that helps FOSS projects secure sustainable funding, and goodness, that is soooo hard! Enterprises (where money is) are afraid of FOSS, and many prefer to engage commercially with commercial open source companies, backed by VCs

Last year is just when they started being honest about it. Before then they left their terms intentionally ambiguous, then shook people down anyway.

Good eye. I would not have noticed if the terms changed，even with all of those articles. Is there a good replacement?

micromamba + conda-forge does the job really well. All open source and community supported, and none of the licensing drama.

In my experience uv (haven't tried astral) doesn't quite fill the same niche, especially if compiled packages from other languages are necessary for your workflow (libboost for example)

uv.