> what exactly does moving from a purchase to a subscription benefit me?
It keeps the vendor financially healthy, stable and willing to keep developing the stuff you use.
Would you want to dedicate your work into a product for meagre & sporadic standalone payments pressuring you to endlessly churn out marketable feature upgrades with little time for maintenance work just to barely make ends meet? No? Then why on earth do you expect other software vendors to do that?
Even Bitwarden pushes subscriptions.
I'd love to see how many developers who complain on HN about subscriptions actually make a living primarily from selling standalone software to consumers.
This is a lame justification; software companies were quite capable of sales rather than subscriptions and have been throughout most of their existence.
This model is simply more lucrative and strips customers of a number of their rights which are inconvenient for corporations.
It keeps the vendor financially healthy, stable and willing to keep developing the stuff you use.
Would you want to dedicate your work into a product for meagre & sporadic standalone payments pressuring you to endlessly churn out marketable feature upgrades with little time for maintenance work just to barely make ends meet? No? Then why on earth do you expect other software vendors to do that?
Even Bitwarden pushes subscriptions.
I'd love to see how many developers who complain on HN about subscriptions actually make a living primarily from selling standalone software to consumers.