> At this point I'm irrationally bothered by the fact that it's a 100+ staff company just to make a product that's no better than it was when they had 10 staff and is now more expensive.
Supporting more customers and larger scale is inherently more expensive, but I still don’t understand how the product feels like it peaked about 5 years ago and has been treading water ever since.
I don’t mind paying $50 or even $100 for a good password manager that I could rely on for several years. However, it feels like these moves toward subscription software are aimed at extracting $300 or more from me for the same time period, all while failing to provide a decently updated experience.
I do routinely pay $150/year or more for other software packages like JetBrains IDEs, but those are constantly updated. With 1Password it feels like the move to subscription was a step backwards in features with a huge step up in long term price. No thanks.
Supporting more customers and larger scale is inherently more expensive, but I still don’t understand how the product feels like it peaked about 5 years ago and has been treading water ever since.
I don’t mind paying $50 or even $100 for a good password manager that I could rely on for several years. However, it feels like these moves toward subscription software are aimed at extracting $300 or more from me for the same time period, all while failing to provide a decently updated experience.
I do routinely pay $150/year or more for other software packages like JetBrains IDEs, but those are constantly updated. With 1Password it feels like the move to subscription was a step backwards in features with a huge step up in long term price. No thanks.