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Are Monero devs well fed?

I always considered Blender as a great example of how successful a FOSS project can be, same with the Linux kernel.
However, one cannot be cynical and ignore the weight that the involvement of hundreds of individuals/companies donating money to these projects has in this.
Very few foss projects are in this situation, most FOSS devs are poor af and do it out of pure love for their projects, but this has been shown to not be sustainable in the long run in many instances, see what happened with Log4j Log4Shell vuln... The project was being mantained by just 3 unpaid devs IIRC.
Blender developers are well paid, have full time jobs fixing/improving it, and this has been wonderful for the project.
https://fund.blender.org/ has a good showcase of all the financial backers they have.

In the end, I just wonder if the Monero devs are well backed so they can focus on improving the project sustainably.