who is this average developer? layoffs are left and right for last 4 years. startups getting shutdown. funding for gov contracts getting cut. it is increasingly hard to find any job in software. many guys I know are barely making it, and better spend those money on their child or living expenses. "average developers" say in china, philipines, india, vietnam, cis countries, making way less than to un-frugally spend it on 50USD subscription, for something that may not even work well, and may require human anyways. pay 0.4USD "per-file" is just ridiculous. this pricing immediately puts off and is a non-starter

UPD: oh, you mean management will fire SWEs and replace them with this? well, yeah, then it makes sense to them. but the quality has to be good. and even then many mid to large size orgs I know are cutting all subscriptions (particularly per developer or per box) they possibly can (e.g. Microsoft, Datadog etc.) so even for them cost is of importance