Seriously. Look at how much blowback $10/month for Github Copilot got. $10! I don't know everyone's financial status, but from where I'm sitting, $10/month for that is cheap.
It's about the value, not the cost. You can get VSCode for free, or JetBrains Professional IDEs for about $10/month (after 2nd year). People just don't agree that Copilot has value comparable to those yet.
All the comments I've read complaining about the price were saying basically that. One even explicitly said that if it was cheaper he'd buy it for fun, but since it provided no value, he wouldn't... just to get a thread of people complaining that the price shouldn't change his opinion.
Back of the envelope this though. Lets say a programmer makes $60/hr, or $120k/yr. Lets say Copilot replaces 5 minutes of googling around to find the right stack overflow answer and copy and paste and adapt it to fit. Copilot just has to do that twice in a whole month to be worth $10/month.
I don't disagree, but as I said, it's about comparative value to other tools. Any first world developer can afford $10/month.
That being said, if you are a full time employee you won't magically earn an extra $10 a month for using Copilot, you will only be more productive. It will benefit your employer and Copilot doesn't have an enterprise subscription yet.
I think it’s largely because copilot is hardly worth it to use for free. I found it to provide negative value and waste my time with its correct looking but ultimately incorrect suggestions.
