I don't mind paid subscriptions in principle. If I *using the app I want it to be around for a long time. That ain't going to happen unless it's written by so

I don't mind paid subscriptions in principle. If I *using the app I want it to be around for a long time. That ain't going to happen unless it's written by some open source idealist (which is the ideal situation - think Signal), or the author makes some money out of it. The used to charge $5..$10 for an app. I love that to change to $5 plus $1/year thereafter. I'm not going to notice the $1, and if they have 100K users they've got an excellent reason to maintain it. But that isn't what has happened. Instead the price has dropped to free, but the subscription has gone up $20/yr. I'm not paying that. I got along perfectly fine without the app before. I am somewhat perplexed anybody does pay that, but I guess there must be some out there that do.