Those items don't apply universally or only with caveats though.
1. Developers love to build things that they want to or are paid to. If you had to develop every tool you used for work and bootstrap a complete system you would learn a ton, but not get much done on whatever the original task was.
2. Developers hate using up mental space more than they hate spending money. If I subscribe to your subscription only development tool then I have this little ping in the back of my head whenever I use it or whenever I get an email from you. "Hmm, when does this renew? Is it still worth it? What does this do again?" This is the reason I don't like subscription models. If you're constantly changing and breaking things then that's even worse. The big reason I don't buy things besides the above is that I just get tired of having to justify it and possibly expense it or wait for approval so if it's not something I personally want enough to spend my own money on, I won't' buy it.
3. I mean, maybe someone right out of college or someone with no other constraints besides work on their time. But I covet my time and guard it as my most precious resource.
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Those items don't apply universally or only with caveats though.
1. Developers love to build things that they want to or are paid to. If you had to develop every tool you used for work and bootstrap a complete system you would learn a ton, but not get much done on whatever the original task was.
2. Developers hate using up mental space more than they hate spending money. If I subscribe to your subscription only development tool then I have this little ping in the back of my head whenever I use it or whenever I get an email from you. "Hmm, when does this renew? Is it still worth it? What does this do again?" This is the reason I don't like subscription models. If you're constantly changing and breaking things then that's even worse. The big reason I don't buy things besides the above is that I just get tired of having to justify it and possibly expense it or wait for approval so if it's not something I personally want enough to spend my own money on, I won't' buy it.
3. I mean, maybe someone right out of college or someone with no other constraints besides work on their time. But I covet my time and guard it as my most precious resource.