I was interested in Zitadel, but because it requires Kubernetes, it can't replace Keycloak in my docker-compose managed homelab setup. If you could just run it as a standalone container, I'd give it a shot.
There are a lot of other improvements, but if that's the only dealbreaker, v2 should take care of it.
What do you not like of the new pricing? The pay-as-you-go approach?
The background to this is, that we got many customers asking for features on the lower tiers and that many of them wanted to have a more linear scaling in their business cases. On the other hand we wanted to make sure, that even from the start you get all security features without paywalling them.
The 25K request roughly translate to 10K user per Month and you will be able to get that without a credit card :-)
I'm really impressed with your strategy and v2 looks like a really great upgrade.