Yup. I bought my mother a new printer a year or two back. She wanted Instant Ink, I explained how it would work but I was pretty cynical, nevertheless she was immediately attracted. "Are you sure?" I asked, "It makes no real difference to me which mid-range inkjet printer I buy you and some of these are reviewed as being cheap to run with large ink tanks you can re-fill yourself". She was insistent that HP's Instant Ink business model fitted her needs. I installed the printer & set up Instant Ink before I left.
A year later she reports everything working out just how she wanted and no regrets. She's on one of the middle tiers so it's not an inconsiderable amount of money but she prints quite a lot of stuff, she does craft projects with local kids in various organisations and does dress making, these days mostly for dolls because we (her kids) grew up - and it all ends up using paper patterns. She enjoys the small puzzle of managing the page budget to avoid excess fees, and she very much likes never finding that it's low on ink unexpectedly without a spare cartridge ready to go because of course HP ensures that frustration won't happen.
A year later she reports everything working out just how she wanted and no regrets. She's on one of the middle tiers so it's not an inconsiderable amount of money but she prints quite a lot of stuff, she does craft projects with local kids in various organisations and does dress making, these days mostly for dolls because we (her kids) grew up - and it all ends up using paper patterns. She enjoys the small puzzle of managing the page budget to avoid excess fees, and she very much likes never finding that it's low on ink unexpectedly without a spare cartridge ready to go because of course HP ensures that frustration won't happen.