I always wonder how these companies price their services, because my initial reaction is always "$Q/month? That's insanely expensive to do XYZ!" That is certain

I always wonder how these companies price their services, because my initial reaction is always "$Q/month? That's insanely expensive to do XYZ!" That is certainly my reaction today. If I was looking to pay to securely sync notes in the cloud, I could see $10/year (note: not $10/month) being a completely reasonable fee for 1GB of storage. Maybe $20/year just for the convenience factor alone. Convenience is a critical differentiator, because it's possible to sync notes with end-to-end encryption in the cloud completely free via any number of methods. I personally use Obsidian and the "remotely save" plugin. Obsidian charges $96/year for its own sync service which while much cheaper than Standard Notes also strikes me as wildly, offensively, overpriced.