I have no issue with them moving to a subscription model and encouraging it. I want to see the company sustain itself, which is a lot harder to do with one-time license purchases.

I think the main issue here is that it doesn't sound like using 1Password via the web browser is a good idea. It also doesn't seem like the onboarding process makes it as clear as it should that your passwords are going up into the cloud instead of only being stored locally (even if the crypto is fine).