I think one issue is that in organizations it takes effort to get new paid software approved and start paying for those. Even if the money is very small. Like e

I think one issue is that in organizations it takes effort to get new paid software approved and start paying for those. Even if the money is very small. Like engineer that costs $80-150k/y needs couple of tools that cost €50-100/y piece. Usually in organization it is much easier to just increase the spend on already approved vendors. Increase the AWS spend by $50/year? Nobody is going to ask you about it. Or start using some tool that does not involve payments - nobody even knows you are using it. It would be great if we could change that. A world where independent software developers could make a decent living by selling small quality tools would be a better place.