They taught us in Appalachia to avoid re-occuring payments at all costs, because if you forget about it they can rapidly drain your bank account.

What is your suggestion for those of us who can't spare an angel investment of "just" ten dollar a year until we die or sell the domain?

Well true, I don't know what a good way to deal with this would be, blockchain based solutions also suffer from same problem, where early adopters squat on domains and offer to sell them for 10000x markup

I have thought about it for a long time and I also don't know