Example #354 of why the shift to subscriptions and cloudified everything has resulted in me using more open-source for consumer-style apps. It turns out that,

Example #354 of why the shift to subscriptions and cloudified everything has resulted in me using more open-source for consumer-style apps. It turns out that, if you refuse to simply let me throw money at you in exchange for software and instead demand an ongoing relationship, I'm almost certain to just nope out and find a different way to fix my problem. Intentionally baking a bad offboarding experience gives the game away - companies who do this think you're a chump and will happily fuck with you for another nickel rather than build a better product.