Two types of apps that I hope Bubble considers when deciding on its new pricing model are:
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Passion projects — I’ve been running an app on Bubble since 2017 that is not even intended to make money. For most of the year, it has very little usage, but one month per year, there’s a decent usage spike (visitors, capacity, workflow runs, however you want to measure it). I hope that people like me can continue to pay Bubble <=$250-350 per year in perpetuity for passion projects like this. If such apps were to suddenly cost even $500-1000 per year to maintain (or $1500-2k+ per year if a Pro plan or higher was consistently required), I imagine that would cause many such passion projects to shut down or never get going in the first place, which would be a shame. Bubble is an amazing platform for building this kind of stuff, and there’s got to be a way to make the economics work as long as the apps are built reasonably well.
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"Not quite ready" businesses — Given how quickly one can spin up new concepts using Bubble, it is very easy to go from an idea to a smattering of live users with live data, but not be ready to commit oneself (in time or money) to that business when you have a full-time job and myriad other obligations. But because there is some live usage, the app may require, for example, a lot of rows of data (e.g., a list of 150k schools), but realistically those data are only ever lightly used. As with passion projects, I hope it will still be possible to pay Bubble $250-350 per year for apps like this that aren’t quite ready for prime time, versus feeling forced to either (a) abandon the idea or (b) scramble to accelerate the idea since you’re now paying $1500-2k per year for a Pro plan or especially $4k+ for a Production plan.
I’m really curious to know how many community members have an app currently on a Personal plan that falls into one of these two specific buckets (again, a passion project or “not quite ready” business). I have one of each. Please 
this post if you do, too.