It's funny to observe the tide shift against Stripe on HN in recent years. I think they are a phenomenal, once in a generation company. Their APIs are beautiful (still, even though fewer people agree these days) and the use cases that can be built upon those APIs are endless and amazing. I always felt the pricing was a steal for what the product delivered.

Their support, on the other hand :(. ! Maybe it will get better with advances in LLMs, because I'd be shocked if I was ever talking to a human.