Time will tell if you're right, but I think this will be a net negative for the business overall. Here's what I think will happen. It will take time, but people will eventually leave when it becomes clear that they're not getting anywhere near $900 per year of value out of the site. As many people have said before, the value in SA comes from the community, and as the community shrinks, so will the intrinsic value of the business. The snowball will begin to roll.

You can talk about analysis you want, but the analysis was done before the paywall. Post-paywall Seeking Alpha will prove to be a completely different thing than it is right now. 

Daniel, 

95% of the articles I have read on SA are more than 10 days old. My process is this: I find a stock I like, then head over to SA to see what's been written on it. It's very rare to find an article that is less than 10 days old on any given stock. That's not "deep-diving". Many stocks don't have any articles less than 10 days old. I don't find value in reading whatever is "trending" on stocks I'm not interested in buying.

The response has been clear. This many people aren't wrong. I'm not saying it is your doing, but whoever made this decision should be more transparent with changes instead of trying to sell us on this whole "nothing has really changed" pretense. Come on, now. We're not stupid.

Agree with everyone. This is insane! Would be happy to pay $5-10 per month but $75 is an insult.