I totally understand wanting to push more people to subscriptions, honestly I find it a way more user friendly model than selling data, or doing other weird beh

I totally understand wanting to push more people to subscriptions, honestly I find it a way more user friendly model than selling data, or doing other weird behind the scenes stuff. If you like this, pay us for it, and we'll keep making it. Shutting down an API makes sense of course - I mean an API doesn't come for free - someone has to maintain it, upgrade it, etc, but I just hate it. More walled gardens and data that I can't really move around in real time (yes, I know you can export data, and I know entire apps like rungap can move everything around everywhere) But god what I wouldn't give for an alternate world where so many of these things are open-source software that only needs to generate enough revenue to pay for some salaries (and not pay back 17 rounds of VCs) and have open APIs. [Thinking right now specifically about Home Assistant. In my mind it's far better than any proprietary home automation platform, now that there's enough revenue to even pay a few devs to work on it full time, it's rapidly getting UX improvements that make it better even for non-developers to use, it's completely open, etc etc etc]