Several of the concerns revolve around the complexity of managing multiple IDs (product SKUs, prices, etc) for a single subscription - and the author reaches the conclusion that this is because it's optimized for "e-commerce and not B2B SaaS".
While from the buyer's perspective, "single negotiated cost with overages" may appear simple - it's a single bill after all - on the accounting side for the company selling the product, I'd expect it's much more complicated; with potentially different tax rates for different products and complexity around producing an auditor-defensible determination for "cost of goods sold" and "marketing expense."
So for at least some of these requests, I see Stripe's posture here as helpful - it's not "requesting a dollar figure", it's "creating a detailed enough accounting trail behind that bill to operate your business." Looking across the breadth of Stripe's products, I'd give them the benefit of the doubt here.
While from the buyer's perspective, "single negotiated cost with overages" may appear simple - it's a single bill after all - on the accounting side for the company selling the product, I'd expect it's much more complicated; with potentially different tax rates for different products and complexity around producing an auditor-defensible determination for "cost of goods sold" and "marketing expense."
So for at least some of these requests, I see Stripe's posture here as helpful - it's not "requesting a dollar figure", it's "creating a detailed enough accounting trail behind that bill to operate your business." Looking across the breadth of Stripe's products, I'd give them the benefit of the doubt here.