I don’t mean to come across as rude, but this totally misses my point, maybe I was not clear enough what I see as the problem. You seem to think I’m under the impression that pro-tier licenses didn’t exist anywhere before this? I am not sure what I said to give you that impression but of course that is obviously incorrect. Of course they have existed for a long time - and include with them some benefits of being a corporate purchaser. I have never once seen a license tier where it’s based solely on how much money you have and in return gives you nothing above and beyond the personal tier license.
Please show me an example of this somewhere, I am genuinely curious where you have seen this - because I can provide dozens of examples of software licenses where professional tiered licenses exist for the purpose of separating different levels of product support or permissions for larger distribution volume etc. because purchasers of corporate license tiers have those needs above and beyond personal license buyers.
I’m not being sarcastic, just genuinely curious where you have seen a pro-tier license that charges more based on customer revenue, but where you also get nothing extra in return for the additional cost? Maybe it exists and I just have not come across it before.