Love reading this discussion, even though it feels to be primarily limited to unix/linux users in a US-centered echo-chamber. (I'm in Europe)

Regardless of what the author is spending his money on, I think he is along the median of subscription spend in most of Europe. (counting software and services(streaming, podcast, amazon prime))

I'm not a huge fan of subscription-by-default myself but it has grown on me for certain apps/services. I used to pay $xxxx for a software package and now pay a price per month and getting way more updates, and I can easily cancel at any given time, and resume when I need to with the latest version.

As a professional user, I'm amazed at the amount of people not willing to pay for their daily tools, but I guess that's another discussion.