This would be a very bad decision for Apify in my opinion.
Apify could lose big and active publishers like me who are maintaining 350+ actors on the platform. A large part of the revenue for many of these actors comes from the rental model. If rental pricing is removed, I estimate that around 80% of the revenue could drop.
With such a drop, it honestly wouldn’t make sense for me to continue maintaining such a large number of actors, because the revenue would not even cover the cost of my team that works on development, monitoring, and support.
My suggestion: instead of removing rentals completely, Apify could require every actor to have a PPE version, while still allowing developers to keep rental pricing if they want.