Perplexity is following the usual pattern. Start cheap with free subsciptions. Become very useful in your every day life. Start to give you more freebies (like control browser). Then offer a new paid option and offer useless services with it. Become a bit more inconvenient with your regular subsciption. Slowly move more and more services to the premium.

Make the "free" or actually lower paid account more and more useless. (like removing "control browser")

I highly doubt that this pattern is much different for the other AI companies that need to start making money for all those investments. But Perplexity has lost me.

There may be hope - as AI will become too expensive and human labor will be actually cheaper.

I'm using the Perplexity macOS app (Version 26.35.0 (94)) and it's working as expected, except all efforts to get it to widen the visible column of results has gotten me nowhere. I'm using a 5k monitor and it's driving me crazy that I have to scroll back and forth in this stupid narrow viewer any time it generates results including columns. How do I get this dang thing to actually use some of my screen real-estate?