Funny coincidence, my subscription ends today. I’m switching to self employment and won’t be able to afford the service for a while. I wish it were more affordable, because the freeing feeling of not having to rely on google is irreplaceable.
Even as a business, a subscription would be weighed differently to coffee money - you can easily scale the coffees up and down based on how things are going, this is not true with subscriptions, which essentially increase your fixed costs.
Coffees come out of very different mental budget lines to search tools.
By the way, I have no idea what your point is.