Feeling a lot of very general frustration at the trajectory of 1password. They took venture money a while back, and they're now headed down the path that set at speed.
Venture money means you are committed to an exit-or-perish strategy at all costs, unless you raise enough other funding to buy out your venture investors - and the money for that has to come from somewhere too.
What's the easiest way to crank up ARPU if you already have a committed userbase paying $X/year for upgrades? Find users who will pay $Y/year for upgrades instead - which usually means packaging your product in new ways to appeal to those customers.
Enterprise customers are a common target, and that's who 1password picked.
Hence:
* 1password 8 is no longer native. The experience for the end user is no longer enough of a priority to justify spending that effort. Exec customers, who won't actually be using the product, are easier to convince of standardizing on something if they recognize it when they see it, so now it's got a single (non-native, HTML-based) UI on all platforms, with the concommitant responsiveness and UI fit issues.
Hence:
* Extensive, sudden, and involved investment in shipping products like SSH Key Management, 1Password Connect, and other service-integration products. I'm sure many developer-shaped customers will also get value out of these, but they're designed to position 1Password against Vault and AWS Secrets Store.
@owen all this, plus keeping my eye out for alternatives lately.
I am, you are, and so on, no longer the user for which 1password is primarily designed, because we don't make number go brr. CTOs are the customer, and the package is "use this, and you won't have to worry about credential breaches like the giant mess facing Github and Heroku." Telling execs that if their company uses your product, they can sleep at night, is worth exponentially more money than retail sales are.