one fun side-effect of being involved in cloud spend for years and years is that I'll approve literally any developer expense basically immediately, but I'll very closely scrutinize new additions to our stack: you want six new keyboards, 100 CI hours, a subscription to JetBrains, and a massage? sure - you want _telemetry_? OKAY NOW WE NEED TO TALK 

 anything that's user-facing has a price that's gonna scale linearly, so adding some operational nice-to-haves costs tens of thousands of dollars a month

on that scale, a $10/mo subscription to Docker Hub for 20 people is essentially a rounding error