There are any number of understandable and reasonable answers to that, but you are free to spend your money as you see fit.

Thread stickied as requested. I'm a bit disappointed that in your haste, your unwillingness to go through the burdensome Ovi QA didn't get translated into a bit more in-house QA. Still, the apps in Ovi aren't all optified and no paragons of QA, either.

Your rapid correction of issues as found is commendable.

Just FYI, QA for apps admitted to the maemo.org repository is that they not occupy more than a few hundred kB rootfs space (ideally even less). Here's the complete checklist.