[PaulHoule]

As a customer I wonder about it. For a service like Plex Pass buying a perpetual subscription seems reasonable and affordable but if I am paying $X a month I can "exit" and the vendor might care

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty

but if I've bought a perpetual subscription they've got no reason to listen to me anymore.

[bigscrankus]

This is a benefit of our current SaaS-only model I tout to my community.

But, most don’t care about such things. ;)