Another thing related to what I said about loosing interest as soon as something has taken VC money: If the pricing is not immediately obvious I also loose all interest. I’m rarely going to hunt for prices. If I do, I am more often than not disappointed. Case in point:

godspeedapp.com I had to email them to learn about their one-time purchase option. And to nobody’s surprise it was too expensive (I think it was like 200$ for two years of updates?).