Metered pricing makes it hard to get approval to buy at many organizations. Simple metering (per user) is doable because the purchase department can pretty easily count heads. Complex metering, where you need someone with a deep understanding of the use the product, someone good at spreadsheet modeling, and somebody in purchasing all to sit down and agree together to buy your product? Ouch. You better be a FAANG-sized cloud provider or something like that, it’s going to be a grind.

That too. But there's a good reason for that, metered pricing costs being almost unpredictable.

However, if you're a hobbyist who barely uses the service, you like metered pricing because it ends up costing almost nothing ;)

And this is what I'm picking on... the OP doesn't like the "Hobbyist" tier name but is actually a hobbyist.