People seem pretty salty at Krebs for this https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/issues/3064
He over-reacted, however I can see how this misunderstanding arose. There's a fairly unpleasant bug (issue 3042) and it has been reported in 2021, and the reporter was mocked.
Between maintainer compromises and CI/CD shenanigans, and supply chain dependency issues, "just look at the source bro" doesn't really cut it.