Adding to this my own pessimistic take is that once $big_company that acquired $useful_service decides they have obtained a sufficient level of corporate captur

Adding to this my own pessimistic take is that once $big_company that acquired $useful_service decides they have obtained a sufficient level of corporate capture with paid businesses then they may decide to add limits to non-paid repository counts, sizes, pulls, pushes and tighten those limits each year until the non-paying members have moved on. Something similar may be slowly happening with Gmail based on ask hn submissions.