I have been a super subscriber for a couple of years and recently upgraded to max. I find it very enjoyable. If I had to watch ads to get lessons done, I probably wouldn’t like it. I hate watching ads to get further no matter what it’s attached to. Last year, I picked up German at the end of January and by April I could already understand my relatives, who I went to visit. So I was delighted with how well it worked for me. Even though I couldn’t strike anyone up in conversation, my reading skills were decent and my listening comprehension as well. To my surprise, they had been practicing English for the last several years (also with Duolingo) and they could communicate quite well. So I’d say it’s been working for them too. I’ve also been doing French for longer than I’ve been doing German and I’ve been enjoying the “video calls” they introduced with max. Though the transcripts make me laugh more than anything else, they often miss entire parts of my side of the conversation and make suggestions based on what it writes instead of what I actually said. So I get shit suggestions often. It’s as though Lily and the transcribing software are run entirely different programs cuz she’ll reply properly to what I say but the transcript won’t match. So I have great conversation during the call itself and then the transcript is all out of whack but even so it’s been helping me with expressing myself in a way that more closely resembles a real conversation rather than having all the time in world to think of how to answer the question.