feat: open source and dx improvements

[rohrig]

🔗 Linked issue

❓ Type of change

• [ ] 📖 Documentation (updates to the documentation, readme or JSDoc annotations)
• [ ] 🐞 Bug fix (a non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
• [ x] 👌 Enhancement (improving an existing functionality like performance)
• [ ] ✨ New feature (a non-breaking change that adds functionality)
• [x ] 🧹 Chore (updates to the build process or auxiliary tools and libraries)
• [ ] ⚠️ Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)

📚 Description

📝 Checklist

• [ ] I have linked an issue or discussion.
• [ ] I have updated the documentation accordingly.

[sethidden]

@rohrig is this intended that this PR merges 38 commits? I've been worrying that this branch started out from some develop branch and you're intending to merge into main here

[rohrig]

@rohrig is this intended that this PR merges 38 commits? I've been worrying that this branch started out from some develop branch and you're intending to merge into main here

Yes, the intention is to merge it. The branch stayed open longer than expected.