Wrong concept, fundamentally. "We must extract as much value from every minute of a person's life, in recurring fees!" is the sort of thinking that means I won

Wrong concept, fundamentally. "We must extract as much value from every minute of a person's life, in recurring fees!" is the sort of thinking that means I won't "engage with a product." Even if I end up using an objectively worse solution that isn't trying to put a timer on everything in my life and bill for it. This, and every other modern way of trying to charge for features like this, continues down the path of "Sure, you might hold the title to the equipment, but it's still the manufacturers, and you will use it at their pleasure or not at all." It's more and more true in cars, it's exceedingly true in new farm equipment, and it's nonsense, in all forms. Sell me a feature I can use as I choose, or don't bother. I don't want an always-on cellular OTA VPN link to the mothership to validate my credit card before engaging cloud-learning-based 5G self driving. I'd like a car I can use to get around, on my terms, with the tracking I choose (I choose none). Practically speaking, though, since self driving doesn't exist outside some very limited cases, probably won't exist in a generally useful form for a decade or longer, and probably won't handle things I do on a regular basis (passing a tractor on a rural two lane), it's like asking me what I'd be willing to pay for fusion power. Make it work first, then ask.