my point is that I refuse to adjust my expectations to a technological environment in which we are ok with having to pay per API call to use software.

I reject a future in which all software works as a subscription based service; this is just more taxes (in principle)

I see society going down this path and there are no good reasons for this at all (it is just double then triple then mutliplefold taxation on activity; and what for? so that few lucky persons collect rent forever?).