I’ve been a Postman user for my entire developer career. I remember when it was just a simple Chrome extension that made pentesting APIs slightly less painful. Those were simpler times. Today, I find myself joining the growing exodus of developers abandoning these tools because they sell out.
There are even open source tools that do the same thing.
Also, yeah, if something solves a problem, it can be worth it to pay for it even if it’s proprietary.