I'm sorry for the disappointment and understand your frustration. Our hope is that for users for whom a commercial solution isn't an option, there will be open source methods to do what they need.
We're comitted to continued innovation in the open source InfluxDB and see this as one of the avenues for ensuring that we can continue those open source contributions.
The HA page with open source options we put up will be getting more detail over time: https://influxdata.com/high-availability/
We're comitted to continued innovation in the open source InfluxDB and see this as one of the avenues for ensuring that we can continue those open source contributions.