yes makes sense but don't you think that risk will also extend to OSS? I get there's more freedom and people can always fork but I have experienced several open source projects go to garbage as well and forced me to switch to another service.

And yes Google had gotten progressively every year that I have been a paying customer as well so I am not against your point either. All I am saying is sometimes cloud makes sense financially as well even though open source allows you to do it for free technically. Enshiftication is the word of our age for everything imo unfortunately

OSS lets you take your time.

For example, paperless-ngx was already an absolute ball of mud, and now there’s a new major version that’s somehow even worse.

I’m just not upgrading. It’s behind a VPN, I control what files it can ingest, so it’s okay if it’s old.

I’m looking at a few alternatives and I’ll switch when they are mature and when I have the time, but there’s essentially no deadline.

It definitely can, but Its easier than ever to fork an older version and modify with claude, or just switch to a different OSS provider. With commercial tools there's no rolling back. In fact, I would pay money to go back to the pre Allen Dye liquid ass IOS update.