This is it, really. When people are living paycheck to paycheck which most people are there really just isn’t money to go around to be paying for all these services. The money that could’ve gone to subscription has been taken by increasing costs of groceries
Honestly, yes you guys should move to Firefox. I pretty much stayed on Chrome until chromium Edge was a thing. I tried that and ended up using that until they bloated it to hell and back, so I am back to using Firefox. Honestly just use anything but Chrome.