Long-term 1Password customer here, no affiliation with 1Password or AgileBits.
> They have been doing some pretty unfriendly moves towards their long-term customers
From my point of view this was not hostile at all: I used 1Password with Dropbox sync for years and absolutely loved it as a personal password manager _for myself_. But sharing of passwords with family was a real pain. I gleefully signed up for cloud-hosted 1Password Families at launch and haven't had a bit of regret. Of all the subscription services I use, at $4/mo 1Password is easily the best bang for the buck.
For sharing, it's just sooo much easer than trying to use Dropbox:
I can invite family members just by entering their email address and 1Password walks them through the setup.
I can create new vaults with the click of a button and easily select who I want to share them with.
I can revoke access to members just as easily
I don't have to have a Dropbox account and I don't have to wonder about whether I've set the right permissions on my vault files or whether my free Dropbox quota has been reached.
I don't have to share _my_ vault keys and passwords with someone else to give them access to a vault.
I can still export and back up an encrypted vault whenever and however I want.
It's no accident that all of these features are the same ones that make their product so attractive to businesses as well: ease of access and sharing are both essential for adoption by businesses.
One more note: I still have my old standalone licenses and can still go back to 1Password 4/6 with Dropbox sync any time I want and not pay another dime, as 1Password still has links to download the older versions on their website: https://1password.com/downloads/mac/
Long-term 1Password customer here as well. I understand you are willing to sacrifice security for convenience. I wouldn't mind the recurrent payment, I just cannot imagine to put both the app (which now is online) and the data in the same company hands. I couldn't live like that.
Same, I don't mind the recurring payment all that much - their apps are excellent. I used the subscription for the apps with a synced file for a couple years.
But the cloud push is absurd, and it got too aggressive for me to stomach. It means I no longer have local backups (this screwed over a friend, whose data was deleted by 1P immediately after changing account stuff and could not be recovered). Browsers are also unambiguously not well-suited for this kind of secure-environment use, as exploit after exploit demonstrates. It makes their website a huge bullseye for hacking, rather than needing to somehow attack their entire user-base independently. It's a profit-oriented decision that makes the product's security, its primary feature, worse.
> They have been doing some pretty unfriendly moves towards their long-term customers
From my point of view this was not hostile at all: I used 1Password with Dropbox sync for years and absolutely loved it as a personal password manager _for myself_. But sharing of passwords with family was a real pain. I gleefully signed up for cloud-hosted 1Password Families at launch and haven't had a bit of regret. Of all the subscription services I use, at $4/mo 1Password is easily the best bang for the buck.
For sharing, it's just sooo much easer than trying to use Dropbox: I can invite family members just by entering their email address and 1Password walks them through the setup. I can create new vaults with the click of a button and easily select who I want to share them with. I can revoke access to members just as easily I don't have to have a Dropbox account and I don't have to wonder about whether I've set the right permissions on my vault files or whether my free Dropbox quota has been reached. I don't have to share _my_ vault keys and passwords with someone else to give them access to a vault. I can still export and back up an encrypted vault whenever and however I want.
It's no accident that all of these features are the same ones that make their product so attractive to businesses as well: ease of access and sharing are both essential for adoption by businesses.
One more note: I still have my old standalone licenses and can still go back to 1Password 4/6 with Dropbox sync any time I want and not pay another dime, as 1Password still has links to download the older versions on their website: https://1password.com/downloads/mac/