Wrong on every account. The default installation of Obsidian is free. You can pay to sync up to their servers, or take 20 minutes to "wire up" Gitea for syncing

Wrong on every account. The default installation of Obsidian is free. You can pay to sync up to their servers, or take 20 minutes to "wire up" Gitea for syncing. Even the author's statement is kind of bizarre to me. Obsidian pretty much gets out of your way and you can start writing immediately. The WYSIWYG nature means you don't even really need to be thinking about markdown syntax that much. Obsidian is a tool for people who actually like to write.