Having paid for a home license last year (mostly for the ability to run Python scripts) and discovering the home version has a sabotaged python implementation (can only run scripts individually from the GUI instead of running them from the command line, and you don't get the toolkit to develop scripts/plugins), it seems kind of hilarious that the free version is so close in feature set to Home. What's the difference even? They're both for "non-commercial use only", is the (limited) python script interface the only reason to pay $365 a year now? That, Lumina, and email support?
I'd buy Home if it came in C167, not because I want to but because $365/year is still a lot less time than I'd spend writing/finishing a C167 module for Ghidra.
Anyway, the pricing model doesn't actually make any sense no matter how you slice it, and this latest announcement is even more bizarre. I really wonder how long for this world Hex-Rays products are, the always glacial development pace is still quite slow and as a new generation of people start by using Ghidra, there will IMO be less drive to buy corporate IDA renewals going forward.