And not just overhead for the company, but for the consumer too.

Whether it's actual time spent signing up, putting in my credit card data, updating expired cards, etc. Or linking my account/PayPal/Venmo to receive tiny transactions.

Or just the friction of "do I really want to pay $0.05 for this?" And I just don't want to make a choice, so I close the tab.

I know a lot of people dream about microtransactions changing everything... but even if they work flawlessly technically, I just don't want the mental overhead of making 20 tiny economic decisions every time I use the internet. Ugh.