The bigger the studio, the less likely they are to use or understand the concept of Open Source

They see a price tag and assume quality. Blender is free, so it must be shit.

You probably don’t have a premium account; you have the whatever they call the new premium accounts. The premium accounts are legacy and don’t get new features, so you just have those features and don’t get advertised them.

There are also the thinly veiled ‘news’ emails that show up with special CSS flair in your inbox- but it’s not news, it just them trying to upsell you stuff and get you hyped about [Latest Product].

Ah just in time for me to unsubscribe because they’ve started putting ads in my premium account!