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The only reason is for their power.People have some tolerance for corporate greed, but little to none for blatant corporate power grabs. They are literally killing it right before our eyes for lack of understanding. People won't use the system if they insist they get to know everything about you solely for their benefit. No matter how they spin it, it's just not gonna fly. Watch.
They changed the pricing model to remove the usefulness of the platform for small projects. Getting rid of the riff-raff. Practical evil elitism at work.
The first time I had to re-buy something because I had invested time in a project and could not do without a certain vendors product I looked for (and then used) a freely installable tool that offered the same functionality. I suspect all people of common sense do this. People do "vendor lock-in" as a last resort, and the reason people don't use the MS stack is because they never figured a out a way to stop piracy without stopping (or negatively effecting) honest production. That and not allowing their products to be used as independent pieces. IMHO.