[serf]

amassing a library of scripts for various shapes is time-consuming, true.

however few of those templates do anything that openCV can't be massaged to do well, too.

Given that people are likely going to use only a few of the templates that they find useful for their own work, I find it hard to be able to find the value in paying 100/mo for a massive library filled with techniques that aren't useful for my particular work plus a UI with some polish.

Not only that , but counting stuff in the work place is often done as part of a process; it's dead easy to pipe openCV output into any system that might need to be aware of the count; it's not quite as easy with 'Counting Things' without a human in the loop.

[varjag]

No, with many of the templates you quickly go well beyond "massaging". Not saying it can't be done, but you vastly oversell the triviality of it.