Tiers based on seats doesn't seem all that different. Flipper Cloud seems to be roughly $60/seat/yr but only buyable in fixed chunks, meaning some pay as much as $499/yr for 1 seat, others pay $50/seat for 10 seats, others pay $136/seat for 11 seats, etc.
So now, as a business with 10 users, I still have to decide if my 11th new employee is worth $1000/yr for their seat, if I should kick someone else off and give it to the new employee, etc...
Correct there are some limits still. At some point you have to make a decision, but at least not with every seat. The hope is to keep increasing those limits.
One solution to the “not all users are equal” problem is to create different types of users and price accordingly. That’s what we’re doing, and it’s working out well so far. It depends on the product and use case, of course.
We started down that path with free billing seats. But in the end, per seat just never felt right.
As a business owner (I have some other companies) my favorite software to pay for was everything that didn't charge per seat. I'd like my own software to be the same and thus the change.