I pay for apps that I use once a months or once every other month, why not for something that I will use everyday for long hours. However:

- Collecting telemetry - Requiring sign up (and associating telemetry wit it)

Are flags for me.

If you want to collect feedback fast and easy, the best would have been letting it be taken for a spin by folks in HN and and you could have probably benefitted from a good deal of input on improvement or bug-hunting.

A terminal with a dedicated well funded company, I welcome and can pay for such terminal. But collecting too much data these days is at least frowned upon by almost everyone.