> why is anyone purchases certs anymore ? 0. The cost of certificates is pretty insignificant to most corps. 1. They like to have someone to shout at when cer

> why is anyone purchases certs anymore ? 0. The cost of certificates is pretty insignificant to most corps. 1. They like to have someone to shout at when cert issuance fails. They happily pay money for this ( see point 0 ). 2. LE's cert renewal policies aren't compatible with most corporate change-management processes. Having someone assigned to perform rolling cert changes every 60 days on every server just isn't feasible or desirable. When I worked at "Fortune 50 Corp", an annual ( or even biannual / triannual ) planned cert update was a big deal and we had to stage the change across groups of servers in accordance with an algorithm that ensured that if they all inadvertently screwed-up that there enough servers with the old certs to keep production and pre-pro running. 3. Customers, particularly of financial insitutions, like to see the reassuring green EV indicator in their browser.