[ivannovazzi]

Appreciate the pushback — you clearly know this space well.

On open source: no, KeyEnv is not open source. That's a real trade-off and I should have said so directly.

On pricing math: you're right in that scenario. For 10 devs with 10 total secrets, AWS SM is dramatically cheaper. Our pricing makes more sense when teams have dozens of secrets per environment across multiple projects (dev/staging/prod) — where the per-user flat rate becomes predictable. But I take the point that the break-even is higher than I'd like.

On hyperscaler friction: fair, it's gotten much better. The main gap we see is local dev DX — injecting secrets into `npm start` or `docker compose up` without writing files. But you could wrap that around SM too.

Honest feedback helps. Thanks.