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Well, it's pretty obvious. If the "reinstatement fee" was lower or if it was the same as a yearly renewal, then people wouldn't keep on any kind of subscription plan. They'd just buy when a new version they need was out.

It would be the exact same thing as it used to be before the subscription model but now for lower money. If you don't remember (which you should based on your long history with Pro Tools), upgrades were expensive for TDM versions.
More than the $399 or $599 you want now to pay. If you wait 3 years between upgrades, even at $999, it's less that the cost of upgrades were before 12.

The dumb thing is if you reinstate under 3 years from your expiry -- then it would have been better to pay continuously. And that's kind of the point to encourage that behaviour to give them a steady cash flow vs sporadic.