I’m also a one-man band too.
I am not rich either.
I want to learn as much as you do, I am new around here too. Still I see this question as utterly absurd, I’m not attacking you. It just doesn’t make sense when it is already cheap as hell and few months ago was completely impossible for the masses of indies and hobbyists to even look at the documentation nevermind the tools themselves.
And making a trial version that would be cracked in few days would be a waste of resources; and when a programmer’s salary is in the thousands per month each… Would cost them a couple hundred thousand dollars just to make sure you save 19 bucks.