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Huh? Minimum wage does not make it harder to find work.

The concern is here is clearly not the revocation of licenses.

The cost of not just learning but becoming a professional user of a specific set of tools is very high. Then later as time goes by being forced to either abandon these tools or to accept a different pricing model is - to many people - unfair and unethical.

Is water harvested on Mars habitable for fish? If not, bringing such large volume of water to orbit and/or Mars could be too costly.

There is more to this argument. Adobe made themselves an industry standard with a perpetual license - pay once, own forever. Once they transitioned to a subscription model with a strict cancellation policy, it became the only option.

Saying that designers could have just continued using Photoshop CS on a 2006 MacBook doesn't reflect the reality of hardware updates and the changes in the industry-wide design trends.

Startmail.com and Protonmail.com allow responding from alias email addresses.

Most domain registrars require providing identity details. Even if these details are private, a single leak or a config mistake on this domain will expose your real identity, tied to all aliases. With an alias service or a shared email provider you don't have this risk as you don't have to provide your real-life identity.

So while it's tempting to use one random alias ([email protected]) for a high-risk service and another alias for a critical service ([email protected]), these aliases are easily identifiable as belonging to the same person.

Integration. When signing up with a new web service, you can just pop open Bitwarden and will generate both a unique email alias and a unique password, prefill the sign up form, and save the details to the password manager.

Most people use a catch-all email with custom domains — and Bitwarden does have an option for that.

As mentioned somewhere in this thread, using a custom domain poses other risks, in some cases more significant. All your aliases will be forever tied to your identity (and potentially de-anonymized by a single leak).

It's not in the same category. You can use Firefox Relay as an alias generator within Bitwarden. It provides a convenient UI and an integration with the password manager.

In most cases you can have the same level of provenance with a plus addressed email, without needing to support a custom domain.