Maya comes to mind; total cost for my small team ended up more than an entire artists salary. Another that comes to mind was when I was forced to buy “Mindmana

Maya comes to mind; total cost for my small team ended up more than an entire artists salary. Another that comes to mind was when I was forced to buy “Mindmanager” and was shocked at the cost. Even the base licence was something like €1600/u/year; but the extensions are required, and paid. Theres a bunch of “top” items of things, gitlab ultimate and sourcegraph being €99/u/m come to mind, which are off the shelf, and actually useful even for frugal people like myself.