It’s scary how big stripe is becoming. Instead of competing just buy up other companies. Might be another company that will require regulatory intervention and break them up (same as when the govt broke up the railroads)
As someone from a country not supported by Stripe, it is annoying how frequently I find some tool that I might want to use, only to discover Stripe's the only payout option.
In my specific case Bosnia & Herzegovina, but we're far from only ones. They list 46 countries, though I'd describe it more as EU + 19 others: https://stripe.com/global
PayPal, for all its faults, is still a far more universal option, but that means very little if people keep making Stripe-only tools. It has become a habit of mine to immediately look for the FAQ to see if PayPal is supported.
Not the OP, but Stripe disabled verification and payments for new accounts in India. The only way to receive international payments is through an MoR like Lemon Squeezy or Paddle. PayPal should work too but my experience with it is limited.
