I - for one - was glad to have it opened back up to free status. I have the experience to get a fairly good paying job, but that would have meant that I would have had to sacrifice the time needed to get help for my kids, so i chose to downgrade for awhile.
and I did start up a subscription, because I thought it was important to be here, but if truth were told- I would have rather put that money to better use by getting community awareness projects started...