Core argument of Donarski's wroclove.rb 2023 talk. Current sponsorship reaches only the most visible packages (Rails, Puma, Sidekiq-like projects); leaf nodes such as core-js, log4j and left-pad receive nothing. Even a unicorn company like Shopify with thousands of transitive dependencies has no automated way to support them all, so most of the graph is ignored. Bounties distort incentives by pulling maintainers toward one customer's feature requests. The fix is a system — automated, recursive, graph-aware — rather than more individual goodwill.