I'm probably somewhat adjacent to you. I would be happy to pay, but I just don't want to pay any of the companies that are actually offering things right now. I had the $20/month sub for Claude for a couple months, until one day I kept inexplicably getting errors saying I hit the limit even though their site showed my usage at less than half for the session and 8% for the week, and it seemed silly to pay for something that couldn't even properly respect its own measurements. OpenAI sketches me out too much as a company, Cursor feels lackluster when I use it for work from the account they pay for (and now is getting acquired by maybe the only AI company even sketchier than OpenAI), and I wasn't particularly impressed with Gemini or Mistral Vibe either when I tried them on the free tiers either.