Yea i hate this framing. Nothing is free and we should be wanting to move towards payment ourselves. Yea, i'd prefer "payment" to be the cost of locally running a server, but i'll take what i can get.
The days of believing free is viable for any online service should be long gone. Hell it's difficult to even determine if paying for a service actually protects you from being the product - because often that isn't the case. However free should be a no-brainer these days. There is no free.
