As you clearly observed, the WWW transformed the entire software industry into a much more palatable bite. Sure, $600/year may not be what you want, but remember how it was when you had to pay for each and every update of the Microsoft operating system. SQL server was sold by client licenses, and if you wanted to have 3-4 clients accessing the db at the same time you had to pay a fortune. MySQL, Apache and all the gang really transformed the landscape.

Of course the landscape is not perfect and I do not expect the financial landscape to be perfect ten years from now, when crypto would really have made its impact, but it will be dramatically different from what we have now.

We are now used to pay banking fees like we were used to pay for Microsoft OS upgrades. These type of things will get obsolete very fast.

Or at least that's what I think :)