I fully understand what you are saying. YouTube seems to always be messing with a good thing and ruining it. It happens so frequently that it is difficult for a reasonable person not to conclude that there is a certain amount of intentionality involved. On my end, I have no way of knowing what the cost of operating TB is, so I cannot comment on that. That is why I use words like, "It seems to me" to indicate that what I am saying is only an impression from my perspective. I realize that the Pro version may have many features that have not gone away, so I guess it is mostly the certain features that I most frequently use. There are many features that I do not find useful or helpful that I don't use, but it sure seems like the ones that I do are the ones that have gone away.
As far as the reduction in the fee for Legend being reduced, I had not heard of that. I think that was a good move as the former price was way out of reach (my perspective) for most people. Again, I do not have any understanding of what goes into TB behind the scenes, but I am also a subscriber to Microsoft Office 365, for which I pay $69 a year and get access to the full array of Office software, plus 6 TB of cloud storage. Again, I do not understand the inner workings of TB, but my perspective is that the Pro version fee of TB is looked at by the TB staff to be a unreaonably small amount to access some basic feature of TB, when from my perspective, I am paying less to have full access to a whole suite of elite top level premier world class software. Again, this is just my perspective, and I understand that you have no influence or saying in this matter. From where I am standing, what I pay for Pro is, from a software industry standard, a competitive reasonable price to pay for a top level peice of software. Evene most of Adobe's software comes in under TB Legend monthly fee.
I want state again, that I fully understand that TB is a for-profit business and I am in no way indicating that anyone is doing anything wrong. I am simply providing end user's perpective.
TB is a useful tool and those that work desrve to earn from their work. They have families to feed, just as I do. However, my income is not guranteed by a monthly fee like developers of TB. As a online content creator for YouTube, I essentially work on commision. If my videos perfomr well, I earn more if they don't I earn less. TB is tool that that is supposed to help me get more views, thus increasing my income. When I first started using TB as Pro subcriber (six years now), the Pro subscription was treated like a top tier subcriotin and all but a few elite feature were reserved to Legend. In those days using TB could produces a measurable difference in views to my videos. Over the years though,many of Pro's best most impactful features dropped off, and now Pro is treated as basically the red-headed-step child version that TB really would rather just get rid of (my perspective). At the same time, many of the top features that have been added, are not really as impactful as we would hope they would be when it comes to increasing views on YT (due to changes in how YT algorythm works).
All this to say, that I have no problem paying for software that I can justify paying for because it gives me a return on investment. Right now, the Pro version of TB is not really reaching that goal. I have tried out Legend in the past, for one year, and did not find had much impact over the Pro version, and was certainly not benefiting me enough to justify the monthly fee. I want the TB devs to prosper and make a living, but I have to do so as well. I am a for-profit business too. On YouTube, just maiking content is not enough. You have to make content people want to watch in order to succedd. I guess that the TB devs are in kind of the same boat. Just adding features is not enough. They need to add features that can tangably help a YouTuber make more money (Mutually profitable relationship).
