My grievances with Proton

Yeah, I’m not saying aliases should be free to register. I’m saying that Proton should allow somebody to pay to register them and then keep them after their subscription ends. Precisely because there is no recurring operational cost of maintaining them after the subscription ends. I think that makes sense, even from a business perspective. Email names are desirable and limited. There is a real form of scarcity there. So requiring payment to create them is fine. But like, suppose you believe that aliases should be individually paid for with a fee so that you can keep them indefinitely. I would wager that fee is already covered by the cost of initiating a subscription. Since you’ve already paid for the ability to create aliases, and it costs nothing to maintain them, disabling them gains Proton nothing technically. The only thing it would do is to coerce a user to keep paying for a feature that would cost the user dearly, and that costs nothing on Proton’s side. So yes, I would actually be perfectly fine with a one-time fee for registration. Though I would argue that fee is already covered by the first payment of a subscription.