I'm happy to hear they did it, but I'm surprised; I thought the management would be just too stubborn to change policy. - K Welch
Yes, in general they are not very willing to care about their community. Definitely this is not what anyone expected (I've checked a number of blog posts related to the decision back in March and no one predicted that basic accounts could ever be brought back). - Svetlana Gladkova
Its not just the current management. Six Apart managed to alienate the user base pretty well when it was running LJ. - K Welch