A: Thank you for the feedback, I get what you mean. I think this deal is ideal for new creators starting a business. They get a code or 2, launch their courses and sell them with minimum upfront costs, and take it from there. For established businesses, you are much better off with the subscription indeed. This deal might still be interesting to you though, because from inside your dashboard you get access to a 40% upgrade discount for the Unlimited plan. If you go annually, stack 17% on top of that. The deal is designed to be sustainable, ensuring the long term health of the platform. There are costs associated to each account: support team costs, hosting, bandwidth, database requests, storage for community and assessments content, etc.
I think $99 for hosting a course forever than can generate you many thousands in revenue, for a platform with this amount of features? I think it's still quite a bargain.