1Password 8 looks like it was released around 2022. 1Password 7, which seemed to get support until sometime in 2023 supported local vaults and syncing yourself (via Dropbox or whatever).

So it’s really only been about 3 years since people were forced to get accounts with subscriptions, and now it’s going up 33%.

I still have the zip archive of 1Password 7 in my applications folder that the v8 upgrade created. It hasn’t been very long.

From my vault, I can see I got 1Password 7 in 2018. Using 2016 as the price anchor seems generous when subscriptions weren’t required in 2016.