Yeah, likewise. I'm a Bitwarden subscriber but I'd been looking into alternatives recently because of the licensing kerfuffle. But switching password managers is a pain, so I'm glad to not feel like I have to now.
I use them both. I have KeePassXC for my local machine, and Bitwarden for things I may need out and about.
With the browser plugins for both it's not that hard to manage them both, at least in my opinion.
I was hoping to see some course correction on this from Bitwarden, even if the over-stated impact was really just to the SDK. They appear to understand the look of their licensing move was going to cost them more than it probably should have. Most companies refuse to change course at all, so I at least see it as encouraging.
edit to fix a typo
There is of course the KeePass ecosystem, but that is why I included my second point, as with KeePass you are responsible for vault syncing, having clients for all platforms, etc.
I suppose that it is good to be aware of other options. At the same time, jumping ship so easily also doesn't seem realistic or ideal behavior to me.
Again, I literally found them the other day, and other than a cursory check to make sure the UI/UX is friendly enough to compete with BW or 1P, I haven't had a chance to look through their code at all yet. I have no idea if the promises they document are met.
keepass works in browser (how I use it on a computer), can work offline (which is good in air-gapped instances, one of my reqs) and works directly on my android phone without issue.
Keeweb for example has not had an active maintainer since 2022 https://github.com/keeweb/keeweb/issues/2022
Also, sometimes the bitwarden client decides to blow away my local copy of the password database. I'd like it to store it pesistently on all machines so I have to lose my phone, my laptop, my vaultwarden server and its two backups before I get locked out of everything.
Currently, the phone + laptop don't count as backup copies.
So how does your browser extension work when outside your LAN? via Tailscale or similar VPN mesh? And for people who use it outside of the LAN entirely?
I don't run the browser extension. (There have been too many other password managers with exploitable password bugs.)
I back things up fairly often, but otherwise I would have no idea I'm not just using the enterprise grade Bitwarden license. Things just work, features are there.
Side-note - VaultWarden is incredibly reliable for a self-hosted free solution (I have 1 pod restart 27 days ago due to a power outage, but otherwise it basically does not fall over. No memory leaks, no high cpu consumption, no reliability problems)
Backups are also fairly easy so if need be a DR can be done (and automated) with very little hassle. The vaultwarden backend does depend upon the bitwarden apps for client devices but also features it's own web UI.
Normally this would mean you are shadow banned, but I don't see any other comments in your history getting this treatment - perhaps this comment caught the ire of some anti-spam algorithm.
Breakage is not ideal, but here's how they handled the second, more subtle compatibility break:
https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/issues/5069
I haven't worked up the courage / time to back up my database and upgrade the docker container; will probably get to it this weekend. However, I can't imagine using bitwarden with the official server (too bloated to be trustworthy), or with their cloud thing. I got burnt by lastpass. I'm not putting my passwords in a giant high-value target again.
One thing I do not like (or, say, "miss") in Bitwarden/Vautwarden is the ability to make decrypted backups. I run the service for my immediate family and would like to have access to some people's passwords (of course with their agreement) to make sure they are fine.
A solution is to use Organizations but you cannot have a "organization-only account" - an account that would exclusively save to an organization without a private vault.
The "solution" is to tell people to move what they save to such and such Org but this works fine with me, recently with my wife but somehow my father does not do it and we sometimes end up with tense moments when it is time to get to some accounts :)