We get enough pop-overs in life for subscribing to mailing lists, taking a survey, something about cookies (I know there are legal reasons for that one), and probably other things I’m not thinking of offhand. I really wish they didn’t add to the pile, even if it’s just a one-off (hopefully it is!)

That also includes money to upgrade, for example, display equipment in virtually every office conference room, classroom, home theater, etc. It took a long time to shake VGA in those settings and now that that’s largely been dropped in favor of HDMI it’ll be a tall order to chase after the next best thing with no benefit noticeable to 99.9% of people.

Different services in the context of one service making sense to pay for and another not

Development and hosting are different expenses, but they’re still expenses. I also find it interesting that you call out the “content creators” as being on a certain level, but app creators aren’t?