why should a self-hosted server limit notifications by number of users? its not like the dev team is doing any hosting for notifications that they need to pay for bandwidth and stuff?

i do understand the need for "charging people somehow", same as how some say their product is open source but you still have to pay per user even when its hosted on your own machines, why bother then? its not like i have "security" concerns from E2EE of facebook.

when we are talking "self hosting" then that would mean i get to self-manage but also i am not restricted by features otherwise whats the point?

look at zulip for example.

their cloud hosted version is plus version for $10/user. same for self-hosted business version at $6.67/user. So at the cost of self hosting and management and storage and administration i am only getting a discount of $3.33? again, why bother at this point?