The issue is, Altium isn't a consumer luxury. it's a critical business tool for businesses who are in the business of developing electronic hardware.
Nobody buys an AD license for a laugh, or just in case they need one someday. They buy one because they have real work they need done with it. And they see value in having Altium with its general compatibility with other altium users projects, and its range of extra tools that make life easy for designing stuff for mass production.
If you only have $3k budget for an electronics cad package, you have a bunch of other options in that price range that will even give you change to also buy an OK set of test equipment or do a couple of prototype runs of your first designs - circuit studio, circuit maker, diptrace, eagle, kicad, all the "bundled supplier" offerings from RS + mouser + digikey, and plenty of others.
What would everyone who needs an Altium license to do their work do
1) during the buyers strike?
2) when Altium folds from a sudden cashflow stop, or slowly disintegrates from starvation and attending loss of good employees if they do the price cut?
Also, I'm not sure what the global pricing flexibility is these days. Only Australians (and kiwis?) buy directly from Altium these days. everyone else has distributors with their own margins, rules, etc.
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