Maybe it’s irrational, I just don’t like being so dependent on a subscription service, and having a local network sync between my devices was just fine. It probably would have been less money if it had been a subscription from the start with all the times I bought it. I’m still glad I switched, having bought 1Password on a bunch of platforms and a bunch of paid upgrades before it turned into a subscription. The lack of categories is also a nuisance for organization, you can create folders but have to manage it manually. I’m not sure what happens with all of those, maybe transformed into secure note, but again with all of the attachments removed. Most record types (software license, wireless router, documents, drivers licenses, email accounts, membership, passports, maybe more) don’t exist in Bitwarden. It’s not a complete import, you’ll get usernames and passwords but if you’ve done anything else with it (like say attaching software license files, scans of important documents, etc) they’ll be silently dropped. Sales organizations love to claim 'it's what the customer wants', 'it's more affordable', among other half-truths - when the reality is it's a much more consistent revenue stream that disconnects customers voting with dollars from continual enhancement of the product such that the customer is incented to upgrade. But in the majority of cases the customer is not always delighted by this move. Maybe it's that they're positioning to sell the company and moving to 100% subscription boosts the bottom line valuation. Clearly 1Password has a subset of customers that don't want what they're forcing on customers. While I understand subscriptions can add value, I don't understand the forced model.

Bitwarden has slowly been adding the features I wanted when I had left Lastpass - and at this point it just works for my workflow. I used the migration as a point in time to clean up my vault and have enjoyed a completely clean password manager ever since. I was moving from Lastpass after they sold out.

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