I was thinking the opposite. I'm glad he's charging for upgrades, and charging a decent price for something some developers use all day everyday. I hope this will enable him to continue developing ST.
I'm growing fairly dependent on plugins, though -- I hope the new API isn't too hard for plugin devs to upgrade. Although with most plugins hosted on Github these days, compat is just a pull request away.
So you don't think a ~640% pricing increase rather large? I'm not saying the software isn't worth $70. But relative to it's previous price, I think it's a pretty significant increase.
Edit: My mistake - I just can't read. It was an $11 increase in price.
I'm pretty sure you are right, I don't remember it being $11 because I could have afforded that but $50 was harder to do at the time I was looking into it
It's not a pretty big jump. It's only slightly more than what the author needs to keep up with economic inflation. Assuming 3% inflation per year, Sublime would have costed 59*1.03^5=68.40 USD now.
That's a pretty big jump. Not saying it's not worth it.