This is absolutely delicious. The whole time companies like Microsoft have been pushing this bullshit, people who understand it have been saying the same thing: it's unsustainable both environmentally and financially.

Now Microsoft are trialling actually charging for this thing – arguably still below cost – and people are losing their shit about their tools suddenly being too expensive. Positively delicious consequences.

They fucked around with dependency on big tech and they're finally finding out. I have zero sympathy. When you rent your tools and your agency from an amoral megacorp, this is what you get.