[sneak]

Most of the time, I don’t want the new version or features. If I didn’t think the current version were suitable for my needs, I wouldn’t buy it as-is.

You seem to be conflating future updates with the software as it stands today.

I am not buying support, I am not buying upgrades. I’m buying software once today (and even that is an exception, as the majority of my tools, including 100% of the most critical ones, are free software).

Additionally, I find proprietary software vendors who do open source cosplay (“open core” is something made by people who dgaf about software freedoms) to be generally disdainful. Open core is a slap in the face; nobody is forcing proprietary software vendors to be in denial about being proprietary software vendors.