[voltagex_]

I guess I'm a maker now. It's not that one $5US/month subscription is going to hurt, it's that there's tens of these kinds of tools. If I subscribed to an online code editor, maybe a graphics editor, a CAD tool, a circuit making tool - that'd add up. Yes it's a contrived example but it's the same issue you see in the video/music streaming space. Everyone's carved out their own little niche so you can't just pay for one service, you're paying over and over again.

[VLM]

The problem is the software is free, but if every user of their service sent $2.50/month then you could run it on their computer instead of your own computer. Seeing as I have perfectly good computers, why do I need to pay to use someone elses computer and insert all the middleman inefficiencies?

Last bubble there was a stereotypical internet gnomes underpants model of becoming tech billionaires. Its the same thing today:

"I want you to pay me to be your middleman"

"OK then what will the UX be?"

"It'll be like I'm not even here... well, best case anyway"

....

"Profit!"

Its getting to be a hard sell in the market. Nobody ever woke up and said "My HVAC system is too simple and too predictable, I need to get Google into the flowchart somehow".

Edited to add another way to look at the problem is at high cost its now possible for people without "the knack" to use an IDE. Now... why would people without "the knack" need an IDE? "A soldering iron so simple my mom could use it" "Cool but my mom doesn't want to use a soldering iron" "... crickets ..."