Usually both of those costs are added to the product specifically to have an excuse to charge a subscription, which gets especially galling when 99% of users ha

Usually both of those costs are added to the product specifically to have an excuse to charge a subscription, which gets especially galling when 99% of users have no real use for it. But the most hilarious/sad model has to be Elastic's "you need to pay us based on how bloated our garbage is, regardless of whether we're actually involved in hosting it".