[buildfocus]

Why don't you do subscription?

I've heard plenty of arguments on the 'financial tools to manage them are bad' (forget about them, hard to cancel) but few against 'paying money proportional to how much I use the product'. As a general concept that seems reasonable to me - if you use a product for 10 years, it's fair to pay more than somebody who uses it for a couple of months.

In a world where finance improves (more subs via Apple Pay et al, more banks like Revolut that show & allow unilaterally blocking any given recurring charge) would you still avoid them?

[sam_goody]

    - It's hard to convince my boss to create a subscription.
    - I don't want to become hostage to monthly payments - if I don't pay one month my whole workflow is messed over, so I have to continue (vs. otherwise I can slowly trade it out of my workflow, and/or look for alternatives)
    - Its hard for me to mentally grok how much I am paying monthly on subscriptions. 
    - I never cancel, because inertia.
    - I am not sure if this is something that justifies a monthly subscription, and two weeks is too little time for me to invest in changing my workflow to accommodate it.
    - I hate subscriptions (this is an emotional thing, so you could tell me to get a shrink. But I suspect I am not the only one).

I feel like I am missing even bigger reasons, but /rant