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Yeah the entire existence of any "pro" version of anything is cancer.
I disagree with you however I find it attrocious than when you upgrade (exemple from ZorinOS 16 to 17) if you own a Pro licence you have to buy a new licence (with a discount) and can't "downgrade" to non-Pro (except from reinstalling it from scratch). I think the way the Pro is sold shouldn't put upgrade behind a paywall.
Selling a (bloated) Pro version to bring cash isn't necesseraly cancer it really depend on what you get and how you're treated. And with ZorinOS I was somewhat disapointed...
It is can't because this is how the door gets pushed open to making more and more paid versions of the operating system.
This invites more capitalistic practices into the "market", and is what starts the downward trend.
I'm ok with selling software. But selling the OS at all just seems like a big step that should never be taken.
Selling a paid upgrade is kind of a gray area, but it should be an extra piece that gets installed separately, cross-compatible where possible, and shouldn't affect your ability to upgrade versions for damn sure. I've never dealt with it directly, but if it's like you said and you need to do a complete reinstall to upgrade versions but downgrade from pro to regular, then you've already detected the first tumor.
In my opinion OS is software, many people are working on it and I don't think their work is worth 0$ (maybe Windows being the exception lol).