I will not be affected by the new price tiers, but all this about subscriptions and the down fall of unraid and no they will not survive this., Blah blah.
I find it funny because some of the same people that are complaining have netflix, hulu and Disney. Pay it gladly every month. I have other subscriptions primary my house payment, my car payment, health insurance etc.
Truenas is free but like someone said for how long, sure there's free alternatives like CasaOS but im sure at some point that developer is going to want to get paid, so for how long?
If i was just starting would i choose unraid? yes, why for the same reason that I got it in the first place. I did not have money for server grade equipment i had a pc and bunch of different sizes drive in a beige tower. Limetech without charging extra gave me following technologies, XEN-- KVM--Docker--ZFS for the cost of a license i bought 11 yeas ago. No other software has done that!
Ok enough soap box, I hope this change brings the cash flow that limetech needs to hire developers to take unraid to the next level