Aren't they a profit motivated company?

I'm not necessarily saying that's a bad thing. But it inevitably means they will not always be aligned.

Anon profit, or even a random person, has their own motivations too that will not be aligned. Linus was herding cats in the kernel back when few contributors were paid by corporations to do it. Anyone that has spent any time on a large-ish OSS project has seen bad maintainers with poor incentives, as seen from the outside