I hear what you're saying. But I think the Trotts created a big problem by venturing down a far different path than people expected. The expectation among veteran MT users was that there would always be a free, feature-limited version that was at least no worse than we have now and a feature-rich Pro version that would have many more features (better content management, photo albums, etc.) but would cost. The Trotts never indicated a price, but my assumption was that it would be somewhere between $50 and $150. And my sense was that many people were more than eager to pay for a Pro version. Now we have something entirely different. A free product out of the box that is marginally better in some ways and worse in others (limits on blogs, authors, etc). And a paid product that hardly seems so much better that it's worth the exorbitant price. They've given me no reason to even consider upgrading from the version I have, and many reasons to begin looking elsewhere for other tools. In an apparent attempt to get control of the illegally hosted MT problem, they have created a huge PR misstep. How sad.
