Overpriced? I've had a lifetime subscription for 8 years. That works out to $15/year and the price/year keeps going down each year because it is lifetime. Even at the new lifetime price, it is still next to nothing over the long term. Nobody is going to opt for the monthly or yearly subscription options unless they just want to try it out before they commit to a lifetime subscription. They obviously structure the pricing options to push people toward the lifetime option. Traditional one-time payment? The days of perpetual software licenses are long gone and and have you forgotten that under that old model you paid for the current version and needed to purchase it again when a new version was released? Buy the lifetime subscription which is the closest thing you will get to the old perpetual license model. You are right, Plex is not a streaming service and it is also priced nowhere close to a streaming service with the lifetime subscription. You are paying for the software, not a streaming service. Software development is not free and there are also infrastructure costs on their end for some of the Plex pass features. You are also forgetting that the basic Plex server without the Plex Pass features is free. If all you want to do is stream on your local network, you don't need to pay a cent. The most surprising thing to me is that they haven't starting charging for the basic server. Their model is obviously to get people using the basic server then lure them into a Plex Pass subscription for the extra features. That is basically what happened with me. If you look at the changes, there are no negatives for current Plex Pass subscribers. In fact, there is a benefit because your friends you share your libraries to no longer need to pay the mobile activation fee. The only negatives here are to people using the free version as they are moving some features, like remote streaming, to the subscription plan.

Low population? I live there and almost hit three deer on my way home last night. There has been an overpopulation of deer in the province for a number of years

What? You you have a full chem lab and hydraulic press in your basement?

So, they likely don't have MFA enable on admin accounts. I bet that is what they plan on enabling when they say they are accelerating the rollout of "security work streams".

Microsoft makes videos of all conference sessions available for free. For example, you can view all Ignite sessions online.

Ultimately, the buck stops at the CTO and/or CIO. It is their responsibility to ensure they have the correct people in place with adequate funding. After the first breach, let alone the second, they should have perform a root cause analysis to determine where the deficiencies were. As for handing over the keys, implementing MFA prevents the vast majority of social engineering attacks. MFA isn't infallible, which is why you also monitor your systems closely for suspicious activity so you can detect when a breach has occurred. Anyone who has spent time working in corporate IT knows how this works. IT is seen as a cost center that doesn't contribute to the bottom line. Further, security is seen as an impediment to getting things done. People bitch and moan about having to use MFA and complain when they can't just go pick any old consumer grade solution as an enterprise tool. Anything IT does to get in the way of "agile" thinking is seen as bad for business. Unless there are severe consequences to lax security, none of this is going to change.