If someone I employed said that something “is a full-time job because I need to keep myself familiar”, I’d really have to hold in my laugh of disbelief, to say the least.
You’ve taken the “people should pay ongoing for ongoing work” discourse and applied it beyond the degree to which most intend.
Even if I wasn’t already using a perfectly adequate and free menu bar application to do exactly this, there’s no chance in hell that I’d ever see an apparent lack of documentation ability as justification for an ongoing subscription for this.
This is all ignoring the fact that you’d very likely need to maintain this application in its entirety to continue scratching your own itch.
I pay for a lot of software, including subscriptions. I am almost always happy to do so. This is a rare occurrence where it comes across as a piss-take.
I'm sorry, I can't switch from project to project at whim and keeping up with a project is something continuous for me.
Those who believe that it's a better practice to do it some other way should just do it. I've done my fair share of free apps, browser extensions etc back in the day. Not doing it again. I'm of course open to different business models where the app can be free and recoup the cost in some other way but so far haven't heard any suggestions.
It is alright if a project "fails" if I can't do free work or go through the agony of working on code I moved on long ago.
This is all ignoring the fact that you’d very likely need to maintain this application in its entirety to continue scratching your own itch.
I pay for a lot of software, including subscriptions. I am almost always happy to do so. This is a rare occurrence where it comes across as a piss-take.