I get that, but they want to collect your email to improve marketing. If the product is strong enough it may not matter. Practically speaking, I think getting user signup info is pretty important.
The thing is, we all know they want our email address so they can market to us, so there’s absolutely zero chance of me ever entering a real email address into that box.
I don't get it. Do marketing mails ever sell anything? Or changing the name of the company or any of those other transparent manipulations? It's insulting.
The product should wow the user and sell itself and then the user will come asking to pay for more features. I've bought many products this way.