no surprise, even apify itself runs on rental (per month) model, which for sure works best, everybody runs on it. But it's apify decision devs will not profit from it and we have to respect it. Nowadays it takes like 30 minutes to create fully operating SaaS site with own billing and basic features mimicking apify, so there are no excuses to use apify as platform for your products should you be not happy with that....so imho it's not question of passive waiting for God blessing but active exploring/testing/trying other options. Apify is still perfect way to test waters/market with your ideas.