<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Etheryte</author><text>This argument doesn&amp;#x27;t really make any sense. Why would anyone be loyal to one specific vendor when, as you say, there&amp;#x27;s many comparable alternatives available? You don&amp;#x27;t intentionally buy food at the most expensive store just to make the store more sustainable&amp;#x2F;profitable, do you?</text><parent_chain><item><author>_sword</author><text>In an open market with alternatives I can’t really sympathize with points of view such as “I don’t like that pricing went up so my vendor can be profitable.” If you like a product and want it to be available long term, you would want it to be a self sustaining business, not a cash bonfire.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I cancelled my Replit subscription</title><url>https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/why-i-cancelled-my-replit-subscription</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>avg_dev</author><text>A couple of thoughts:&lt;p&gt;1. Since you say it is an open market with alternatives, I don’t see why you seem to take issue with the blog post author taking one of the alternatives.&lt;p&gt;2. I thought the author did have some issues with the product. Like lack of persistence of uploaded files, price going up, and the support for the author’s current main language, Lisp, being not as good as for Python.</text><parent_chain><item><author>_sword</author><text>In an open market with alternatives I can’t really sympathize with points of view such as “I don’t like that pricing went up so my vendor can be profitable.” If you like a product and want it to be available long term, you would want it to be a self sustaining business, not a cash bonfire.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I cancelled my Replit subscription</title><url>https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/why-i-cancelled-my-replit-subscription</url></story>