Oh well sorry that I took your "subscriptions suck" literally. I guess what that meant to say was "subscriptions with adds before them suck". My fault for not figuring this out.
neither of those need to be a subscription, but rather a pay as you go model that isnt overpriced.
subscriptions are almost always designed to take MORE money longterm or else they wouldnt be pushing them so hard, on most cases its unavoidable because of how they push it onto us.