>That’s the same kind of annoying that my own install still must link to their server that can die at any moment.
With software like a password manager, if it's not actively maintained you're not going to want it anyway. So the same risk of the developers either discontinuing the product OR changing the pricing model applies just about evenly.
Being open source, at least the community can fork and maintain the software if the developers ever did throw in the towel, similar to TrueCrypt's forks.
> Each Bitwarden installation requires a unique installation id and installation key.
If I’m self hosting, I want it to be independent of the code provider. It is bad enough, to me, that I have to pay a subscription fee to self-host “advanced” features like Yubikey auth. That’s the same kind of annoying that my own install still must link to their server that can die at any moment.
Let me buy the software to self-host with all of the features. The “subscription” and “integrated” mindset has no place in “I’m doing it myself” installs.