In your opinion, sure. Many other VIP members see value in the other features.
No. While I appreciate all the speculation in your post most of the assumptions are simply wrong. I posted a previous reply here with more info related to what you wrote.
Not sure I understand this logic. We aren’t holding anyone hostage with their VIP membership. It’s up to the member to decide if the price is worth the value they are receiving, whether that is a long time VIP supporter or a new signup.
We have never released revenue numbers, so no idea where you are getting these numbers from. You are also severely underestimating the infrastructure costs required to run Trakt at the scale we have.
The company that owns TMDB is subsidizing those costs.
Yes, @warregubbi is correct. These are 2 different offerings with the free Younify app being more of a proof of concept of what their SDK offers.
Again, this speculation is interesting to read but not based on any actual data.