For me the annoyance is a subscription model as the default, when other models would make more sense and be more palatable. E.g. My calorie counting app (whic

For me the annoyance is a subscription model as the default, when other models would make more sense and be more palatable. E.g. My calorie counting app (which shall remain nameless, since that's not the point) has a freemium model, where a subscription will grant you access to a bunch of extra metrics, recipes, and ability to store "meals", etc. This doesnt sound too unreasonable, until you realise they ask for £10/month, on the basis that they're offering "hundreds of extra stuff", but in fact I would probably only need, like, 2 or 3 of those extra features, max. I would have happily paid a couple of fivers for those 2-3 features as permanent addons, (including something like "recipe update packs", which in principle isn't too different from a subscription model) but the idea that I'm expected to pay the same amount to only use them for a month makes me feel cheated. As if my stuff will be kept hostage after I cave once. So I haven't left the freemium version yet, and it's unlikely I ever will. It's fairly easy to work around the annoyances anyway.