One of the biggest things I loved about , was it was an open community project. Going the paid marketplace path… I’m gonna have to disagree with else on . I also loved that competed with the paid stuff on the marketplace and felt that it pushed those selling stuff to do better. I wholeheartedly feel there should be an open version of , at the very least in tandem with an “easy” paid version for the weak-kneed out there. If you are serious dev, you can work with . If you just want some plug-n-play action and code and/or more than 20 minutes of work scares you, then pay a few bucks.
Just my 2 cents, as a long time user of beast.