The right way to think of the "SSO tax" (where companies charge extra for security features) is "You are being offered a dual use product backed by a strong engineering team for far less than it would otherwise cost, with sophisticated enterprises picking up the slack."
I respect that many hobbyist geeks like to get their software for free or close-to-free but, well, there would be few SaaS products meaningfully improved by SSO if there weren't a way to charge enterprises what they are worth.
SSO is a segmentation lever, and a particularly powerful one because (as @tqbf notes), everybody in the sophisticated-and-well-monied segment is increasingly *forced* to purchase it.
In this it is like asking a vendor for HIPAA-compliant services. Yes, enjoy 2X on the invoice.
In this it is like asking a vendor for HIPAA-compliant services. Yes, enjoy 2X on the invoice.
(Some geeks feel morally opposed to charging for if statements, which was always a baffling point of view for this former "shareware" developer. If statements were literally the only thing I could sell.)
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