Wow, I hadn't seen a launcher with an annual subscription before. $14/year.

https://help.niagaralauncher.app/article/104-price-of-niagar...

You mean one with a business model where the user isn't the product? I happily paid for a (fairly expensive) lifetime license of Niagara, hoping that I will never read an "after the acquisition, all developers were fired and all ad frameworks were added" article about it.

Nova was a launcher with a business model, too.

FOSS launchers are more resistant. I recommend KISS.

I feel like what updates on phones should require manual user approval when the owning entity changes.

I bought the lifetime license, but I guess I bought it before they raised the prices. Unfortunately, I feel like it's too much of a niche product to be sustainable on the previous price they had.

$40 is a lot of money for most people, but probably not for a big portion of the user base here. (but today, I too would probably not pay that much)

A lifetime subscription is 3x the yearly subscription. Significant, but used to be normal prices for buying an application license.

It is also great with foldables be out supports having 2 different layouts.