You're conflating two separate arguments I made about two separate topics. The first is about per-project vs per-user pricing. The second is about tiered pricing. They are independent.
First, per-project pricing:
Any pricing scheme creates incentives. You get customers' money when the benefits outweigh the price. Per-project pricing makes it easy to get your product in front of as many eyes as can benefit from it, which can create internal network effects that boost internal adoption, which in turn leads to more use. Per-user pricing does not have similar network effects, because you associate a cost directly with adding people to the network.
(Which doesn't mean that per-user pricing has no place ever--that's absolutely not my point--just that it's not something that always makes sense.)
Second, tiered pricing:
It absolutely makes sense that your customers like per-user pricing: they've already self-selected to use your product, which has per-user pricing. The people who don't want per-user pricing are probably just going to ignore your product in the first place, and you'll never know they exist. Tiered pricing is preferred by a certain class of customers. Some of the reasons for that are listed in my initial post. It's unsurprising that it's not preferred by other classes of customers.
Again, I am not arguing that tiered pricing is a universal good or anything similarly silly. What I'm doing is arguing against your suggestion that tiered pricing is always bad.
First, per-project pricing: Any pricing scheme creates incentives. You get customers' money when the benefits outweigh the price. Per-project pricing makes it easy to get your product in front of as many eyes as can benefit from it, which can create internal network effects that boost internal adoption, which in turn leads to more use. Per-user pricing does not have similar network effects, because you associate a cost directly with adding people to the network.
(Which doesn't mean that per-user pricing has no place ever--that's absolutely not my point--just that it's not something that always makes sense.)
Second, tiered pricing: It absolutely makes sense that your customers like per-user pricing: they've already self-selected to use your product, which has per-user pricing. The people who don't want per-user pricing are probably just going to ignore your product in the first place, and you'll never know they exist. Tiered pricing is preferred by a certain class of customers. Some of the reasons for that are listed in my initial post. It's unsurprising that it's not preferred by other classes of customers.
Again, I am not arguing that tiered pricing is a universal good or anything similarly silly. What I'm doing is arguing against your suggestion that tiered pricing is always bad.