As soon as your company can afford to hire a single full-time employee, most of these fees seem pretty inconsequential. And if you haven't hired any employees, you're probably in bootstrapping mode, so you're betting on becoming profitable before running out of runway.

As someone who operates a small tech company (<5 employees), I can't relate to using all these products. However, our needs are different than the author's. Given that they're paying $800+ USD/month, I suspect their monthly revenue and the time saved from these tools justifies their cost.

If spending like a hundred dollars per month per employee on productivity tools is sinking your business then you have much bigger problems.