So, my issue with time bomb licenses is…
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expiry after 3 hours. Sometimes I just need longer to get my things done. Days longer, not a few hrs longer.
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Regenerating a test instance can be tedious, and time consuming when using large data. Reindexing alone can take a significant amount of time once you get into 100k+ tickets. Often times, that’s just a waste of time.
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As @Adam mentioned, the intend is dogfooding long term. Timebomb licenses are good for testing something quickly, then tearing down the instance and moving on. That doesn’t really give me an idea on sustained use. It doesn’t give me an idea of how to improve my product, if I am not using it in a realistic scenario (hence the “dogfooding” term").
Others might be able to articulate additional issues as well.