[neomantra]

While I understand that sentiment, this appears to be a product from an indie developer. In that regard, it could fit the model of Patreon/OnlyFans rather than Adobe Creative Cloud and Office365.

I actually hope more indie developers do this -- and complement it with live-coding the product development and other neat perks. If it reaches critical mass beyond "fans" and becomes major-version-based sales, then early supporters could get large discounts.

Biggest downside seems to be if the software becomes End-of-Life and End-Of-Access suddenly, for whatever reason, and my workflow is disrupted. Some Open Source Parachute would be cool -- over time, we are all affected by dropped software products, by developers big and small.