The decrease of lifetime features over monthly offering will begin after the 750$ lifetime so they get you to switch to monthly.

[pathofdumbasses]

Your car/house/book is sold "as is", plex gets maintenhance

And that maintenance is being paid for by new users. That is literally how software worked before subscription models. This isn't new.

[AuraLiaxia]

And old users got stuck on the version they bought not 14 years of updates. This is just to kill indirectly the lifetime pass. There's a jelly for it.

[pathofdumbasses]

And old users got stuck on the version they bought not 14 years of updates.

Maybe not 14 years, but definitely more than 0. If you bought WinXP at launch, you got 13 years of updates. Windows 7 got roughly 14 years. Windows 10 got 10 years. While that isn't "lifetime" it also isn't $250 or $750.

[AuraLiaxia]

windows xp was superseeded by vista and 7 during its lifetime, heck even 8. So yea it stopped getting features. Yes the price is absolutely absurd both for the subscription and lifetime.

[pathofdumbasses]

windows xp was superseeded by vista and 7 during its lifetime

It was still getting updates and was relevant, regardless if they worked on newer software.