[tester457]

> It's like this market is full of people who want to be screwed and refuse to pay for anything that doesn't screw them.

This market and every market, people don't value things they can get for free.

When money is spent emotions get involved and so does sunk-cost fallacy, tricking us into believing the thing is worth more.

[api]

That's part of it too. We have unintentionally devalued truly user-focused software.