I pay >$30/mo for streaming services, and I arguably use my browser for an order of magnitude more time per day than I do for Netflix/Amazon Prime/Disney+/etc. Folks pay much more for Adobe products, which arguably are mostly desktop-only apps. If you're offloading the work of your browser to a VM/VMs in the cloud, and you derive meaningful benefit from it, I don't think the cost here is absurd.
If you're comparing the cost of the browser today ($0) to the cost of this service, yes, it's steep. But if you consider the benefit you draw (lower memory use, avoid load times for pages "waking up", etc.) you're probably saving a lot of time and hassle.
I'm sure the cost is worth it to a specific segment of power users of, say, Figma. And maybe cloud gaming? But I'm curious if there's really a larger market for this.
I have to imagine they'll eventually have to subsidize a free version by creating a really souped-up premium version that has killer features.
Or they become an acq target by Google or something, and then things could get interesting!
If you're comparing the cost of the browser today ($0) to the cost of this service, yes, it's steep. But if you consider the benefit you draw (lower memory use, avoid load times for pages "waking up", etc.) you're probably saving a lot of time and hassle.