The comment is tongue in cheek. On the discord it was discussed at length and some of the plugins in the Pro version were actually considered anti-patterns, it actually is kinda easy to complicate things needlessly when getting used to D* and I know I did this too in the beginning.
As was said by the commenter in another reply, the inspector is actually the bit that makes the Pro version much more appealing but most people wouldn't know from the sidelines.
Arguably that's good though - for the project. It means it's not a bait and switch like many have claimed. You can build pretty much anything with regular Datastar.
I thought the devs' emphatic assertions in their Discord NOT to buy Datastar Pro was a psyop dark pattern. I bought it to spite them, and barely use any of it. I want my css-in-js back!
Sorry, yes it was sarcasm (I should have indicated that explicitly). I'm happy to fund a tool that I really enjoy using, even if I don't use any of the PRO features.
I payed the one off 299$ for a pro license but have yet to find a reason to use any of the pro features.
I was hoping to need them for the google sheets clone [1] I was building but I seem to be able to do it without PRO features.
- [1] https://cells.andersmurphy.com/