Hi Len,
I'm sorry to hear about your disappointment with ETS licensing model. As was explained in another thwack thread, we decided for this model to not confuse existing ETS customers with 2 types of licensing applied for one product - per seat desktop and multiuser Orion... On the other hand, this caused a bit of frustration on a side of Orion users used to unlimited access restrications.
When you mentioned some cases when you would find ETS handy - did you mean classic desktop ETS or new Webtoolset? If web, would the Toolset on a Web purchasable also as a standalone product be acceptable for you? ( of course, I speak about a future with more than just current 5 tools ported to a web).
Peter
ps: We are internally discussing the possible approaches to this situation and every comment/reaction like yours is helpful. Thanks!