They actually just reverted this change within the last week (of course with accompanying “we love listening to your feedback!!!1!” eyeroll inducing messaging).
If they are the kind of people who would try something, then they are still the same people and that problem did not go away.
They will try something else again, and may in fact already be failing to work to my advantage right now in ways I just can't see.
Once you know that, I prefer to just live without whatever the awesome thing is, somehow I will survive.
This is one of the attitudes that makes the internet so toxic IMHO.
Right up there with removing all nuance from a discussion and attacking a strawman...
There are an infinite number of ways to make enough money to survive.
You can sell your work honestly without artificially witholding work that is already done so you can sell it a million times over, and get people to do it by artificially creating or at least artificially preserving a pain point and randsoming the salve.
That is not simply doing work and paying for that work.
If a thing is at all useful enough that anyone even wants to use it, then there are a million businesses that would love to pay you for expert installation and training and support of perfectly free software.
Ahh but that doesn't scale. You can sell your time to a few people and live very very well, but you can't sell your time to a billion people.
No one is "trying to survive" in this story. What a strange and incredible thing to even try to say.
Yes. That is exactly what I said.
Dealing with a normal mistake isn't a problem because I can just opt out. They removed that ability here.