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I don't think many people criticise the developers salaries, but that of the management. The CEO's has multiplied by an order of magnitude while market share has plumeted. From my cursory search it went from ~$500k/y in 2009 to slightly over $1m/y in 2016 after which it sharply increased, today it's over $5m/y. Market share went from 30% to single digit, so it can't be performance based compensation.
And then there's the question on priotisation and scope expansion, which also determines how much money the need.
Sure aren't constructive, but you'll always have those on the internet so i'd say the default should be to just mentally filter them out. However that doesn't mean that there aren't actual reasons to criticise Mozilla.