Do you remember when we used to have to pay for the next OS version upgrade, and for a program that would put your screen to sleep? Which, after you bought it, would be on floppy disks?
There's only so many ongoing relationships I can keep up with at the same time, and the last thing I want is to establish a new one with another fly-by-night vendor of barely-MVP software toy. Especially the kind of abusive relationship as typical with businesses these days, where they either keep upselling me garbage non-stop, or ghost me in hopes I'll forget I have an automated recurring payment set up with them.
Which, ok, works great for most people most of the time.