I would assume that people in a similar demographics are interested in similar topics. Adjusting the answer to a person within a demographic would therefore adjust it to all people within that demographic and interested in that specific topic.

Or maybe it’s just the nature of the answer being more personal that makes it more appealing to people in general, no matter their background.

They removed russian maintainers that are associated with sanctioned companies. Individual russian contributers were unaffected by this.

If your university has a law faculty they might offer limited legal advice from current students for free or a reduced fee.

Even in that case the app doesn’t need to phone home. It doesn’t even need an internet connection on its own. You’d have to download the update yourself and then use the app to apply the patch, which is less user friendly to not-so-tech-savy users but possible. Just send an email with the necessary information to users who have subscribed to receive these kind of updates.