[WilliamEdward]

Commercial software succeeds when the product sells itself as the best possible version. Looking at macOS, where you're forced to buy a legitimate copy to engage with all the features, you might think "why not just use a free OS" but that sells commercial software short of all the other things it offers other than just "this is software you've seen before".

I do believe it's closed-minded to think all alternatives to commercial software are exactly the same as the commercial version and therefore there's no reason to buy commercial. Paid software still has a reason to exist and many customers to bat.