> I mentioned it because the author was also using 1Password, I can only assume he had copy before they started their subscription model. > I could be wrong of course, but there are quite a few of us I think. With my version of 1Password I feel quite in control though. (Even if the business is moving away from freedom)

Even offline software needs to be maintained. The author is preemptively moving away from 1Password since they're actively pushing their subscription business, and he's unsure how long his lifetime app purchase will remain working. The author is involved in Pushover (a Pushbullet alternative) which uses the (traditional) lifetime app model as well. So he understands the disadvantages of the model.

A few months ago I moved preemptively away from LastPass because my sub was running out end of nov 2017 and as announced the price was going up by 100% which I found unreasonable. Also a preemptive decision since I had to pay for two services for a few months but I didn't know if my transition to Bitwarden would be flawless. Turns out it was pretty much flawless (partly cause of the open data format from LastPass, CSV), but I didn't went with self-hosting. The author did go with self hosting but didn't wanna self-host .NET and MS-SQL which is fair enough. So they wrote their own server written in Ruby.