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That’s the same deal as Plex - people bought it as a thank you to developers as it basically gave you very little extra at the time.
Realistically, my ~$50 plex lifetime pass has been the best value purchase I’ve ever made in terms of hours of use to dollars spent. Tens if not hundreds of thousands of hours have been put on it.