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Bye bye IFTTT, this "subscription life" really needs to end.

And what do you suggest replaces it? Developers don’t offer subscriptions because they are greedy. They offer them because it’s the best way to have a sustainable software business.

Charge for new features like traditional software did. Subscription software is literally rent-seeking... pay forever or your stuff stops working.

If the developer is actually continuing development, new releases that are worth paying for will happen.

If IFTTT was software that ran on your own hardware, I could see your argument. But they are not.

But it's not a software, it's a service that depends on a server farm, and a constantly evolving set of hundreds of third-party integrations.

It literally will break if left unmaintained if not funded properly, unlike a traditional software.

I do agree with other subscription-based models that sells software like Adobe Creative Cloud, where I'd be perfectly okay with having a non-updating version for a fixed cost.

It's usually product/marketing offering subscriptions, not developers. And unfortunately they are usually motivated by greed.

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